19.721 why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 721.
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   [1] From: "Douglas Galbi" <Douglas.Galbi_at_FCC.GOV> (4)
         Subject: why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts

   [2] From: Mícheál Mac_an_Airchinnigh <mmaa_at_eircom.net> (27)
        Subject: Re: 19.718 the arts of humanities computing, the
                 criticism of software

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         Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:41:43 +0100
         From: "Douglas Galbi" <Douglas.Galbi_at_FCC.GOV>
         Subject: why the (digital) humanities need the (digital) arts

Gumbrecht's book, The Production of Presence, emphasizes that artistic
humanities can offer aesthetic experiences that complement the
contemporary hermeneutic obsession of the arts and humanities. For a
review, see
http://www.galbithink.org/gumbrecht.htm

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         Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:46:46 +0100
         From: Mícheál Mac_an_Airchinnigh <mmaa_at_eircom.net>(by
         Subject: Re: 19.718 the arts of
humanities computing, the criticism of software

Some immodest thoughts:

To talk about "software" is like talking about
"literature". The "big" pieces of software are
... well ... far far beyond any kind of
"literature". I speak of course of the kind of
"software" that goes by the name of "operating
systems" (OS) where hundreds of people are
involved. Similar "BIG-SIZE" "software" is found
in Air-Traffic Control, Databases, ... and so on.

Let us talk about software on the size of the
a) great epic poetry or
b) the tiny little haiku
?

Here, you will find in the "literature" an
astonishing amount of the aesthetics associated with the software.

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Must put on my shoes and socks now ... and so on
... and return to this with concrete aesthetics later.

kind regards,

Mícheál

... o O o O o ...
Dr. Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Dublin, Trinity College
Dublin 2,
IRELAND
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Received on Thu Apr 20 2006 - 02:07:40 EDT