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Comment on Fish’s Object by kubla

kubla — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:05:17 +0000

Yes, I agree. Fish’s concern over authorial attention is, well, fishy.

I’ve not been following things closely enough to have a sense of just when and how the “digital humanities” term was invented, but it’s unfortunate. It’s seems that one side-effect of high-Theory has been the branding and commodification of intellectual work. Has anyone been talking about “the digital turn” or has that indignity been avoided so far?

Comment on Fish’s Object by Matthew Wilkens

Matthew Wilkens — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:30:17 +0000

Interesting idea. But in the general case, once you’ve isolated what to read down to the sentence level, you’re best off just reading it.

Comment on Fish’s Object by jduncan2

jduncan2 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:20:38 +0000

I’m largely sympathetic to Fish’s skepticism in this case, but was struck that he didn’t see data-mining as providing a solution to the question of the randomness or deliberateness of all those Ps and Bs.

Comment on A Wee Debate in Post45 Contemporaries by Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:59:45 +0000

Extremely loud and incredibly close is now a movie! What are your predictions? I know that was a very general question so take it where you will, I’m just interested to hear your thoughts. I’m finding that a ton of books on your required reading from your stay at Rice U have been popping up everywhere; your class has been the gift that keeps on giving

Comment on How Many New Novels are Published Each Year? by dan

dan — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:10:50 +0000

lots of books published — lots of songs released — lots of pictures painted and so on. As my uncle the used car salesman used to say “there’s an ass for every seat.” Extraordinary works of art don’t come along very often in any case.

Comment on Maps of American Fiction by Where do the digital humanities and eScience intersect? — Crosspost with VertNet | So You Think You Can Digitize

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:49:25 +0000

[...] One method of digital investigation that caught our attention is the mapping of novels and other historic texts; researchers take prose text and mine it for mappable units. Erin Sells and her students, for [...]

Comment on How Many New Novels are Published Each Year? by Why Non-Fiction Writing Is Profitable For New Writers – Breaking In — About Freelance Writing

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:57:25 +0000

[...] has fewer paying markets. There were, according to Work Product, of the 274,000 books published 2007 only 43,000 were fiction. These numbers are extremely squishy [...]

Comment on Book Revisions with LaTeX and Git by Dettifoss Bergmann

Dettifoss Bergmann — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:51:03 +0000

Thanks for the reply.
I think I will do the same since you’ve not had any problems.

Comment on Book Revisions with LaTeX and Git by Matthew Wilkens

Matthew Wilkens — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:33:57 +0000

I just throw them into Git along with everything else. Inefficient, I suppose, but I haven’t noticed any problems. I tried keeping them in a separate (non-source-controlled) folder at first, but found it was a pain to keep the versions straight!

Comment on Book Revisions with LaTeX and Git by Dettifoss Bergmann

Dettifoss Bergmann — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:38:57 +0000

I am sorry to revive an old thread but I am starting to use TeX with git for my Ph.D. Thesis. My question is: How do/did you deal with binary files, such a figures?