I fear that the digital humanities is becoming dominated by purely technical concerns of implementation, I suspect in no small measure under pressure to assist the other disciplines survive their crises of confidence and funding — as well as to avoid the severe challenges computing presents to all disciplines. One sign of this industrialization is the spread of technological orthodoxy under the banner of technical standards.

Data art involves a creative grappling with the nature of our now ubiquitous data systems. It draws data out, makes it explicit, literally provides it with an image. It also probes data's constitution, potential, and significance. In the process of working pragmatically with data — using it as a generative resource, a way of making — data art is involved in the culturally crucial figuration of data and its contemporary domain. This practice is a concrete exploration of what data is, does, and can do, but it also involves a set of assumptions, narratives and ontologies that construct data as an entity in the cultural imagination. That construction is at the core of this analysis.

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia.

People are weaving a web of dull factual data... what’s not clear is how such a vision allows for the diversity of opinion, modeling, belief systems and cultural diversity that is one of the distinct characters of humanity.

When critical thinking becomes a way to condemn the system of production we depend on, to cast both business and pleasure as "evil", it can indeed be a bad thing: a sort of judgement without discovery.

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I like to think of the blogosphere as a vast, earth-engirdling digestive track, breaking down the news of the day into ever finer particles of meaning (and ever more concentrated toxins).

I attempt here to collect viewpoints both for and against the premise that social media is creating a better public sphere, and analyze them in the context of what constitutes a public and its antithesis, a mass.

If the academic gift economy – where we offer each other intangibles and are tied to each other through vague debts of gratitude – were to be phased out entirely, the result would obviously be disastrous for the development of knowledge.

Thousands of workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk webservice were paid two cents to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Their sheep drawings were collected and printed on collectable stamps.

“The connection the most popular citizen journalists cultivate with their devotees is through an honest, uncensored, raw freedom of expression, and that can be quite uncomfortable territory for a traditional marketer.”

Empowering citizen media, radically democratize, smash elitism, content redistribution, authentic community … This sociological jargon has now become the lexicon of new media capitalism.

Videoblog reviews.

This one would be it...

Having waded through masses of literature by theorists with no practical background and a tendency to make mistakes like attributing Star Wars to Steven Spielberg, it is a delight to read a text that is grounded in both experience and solid rhetoric...

As a reviewer below stated, this is a very interesting book that treats art as a means of recapturing the experience of life and trasmitting that experience to the audience...

Great book with great pictures and well organized, but all images are only in black and white, and the paperback itself feels flimsy...

This is a quite unusual and offbeat treatise on architectural theory, as applied to the world's greatest architectural monstrosity - Las Vegas...

Probably one of the best books of its kind...

As a literature professor, I have a professional responsibility to know about literary theory...

I have to answer "a reader" from Los Angeles who wrote of the book's (in)completeness...

Sontag represents a certain type of "intellectual" who is - thankfully - becoming increasingly rare in the world of google and broadband...

Sense of Sight is possibly the best place to start with the impressive breadth and depth of Berger's essay writing...