Radiant Textuality

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Radiant Textuality by Jerome McGann opens with an explanation of its own narrative: “how certain theoretical views of textuality once considered weird, impractical, and unserious discovered their moment of realization in the digital world of the late twentieth century

Jerome McGann

https://www.engl.virginia.edu/people/jjm2f

http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jjm2f/

Traditional Humanities Vs. Digital Humanities

Resistance is futile; the struggle isn’t between books and computers, it is amongst people. “From now on scholarship will have both/The question is— the choice is— whether those with an intimate appreciation of literary works will become actively involved in designing new sets of tools for studying them.” (p. 186)

The Book as a Machine of Knowledge

The differences between original manuscript and updated typographies only become apparent through humanities computing textual analysis.

From the book, to the codex, to the electronic meta-book

The Rewards of Failure

Alas, the coming of humanities computing does not bring with it the death of the book, only book technology.

“The algorithmic character of traditional text,” “text generates text.” There are codes and mathematical properties to extant in traditional text but we need humanities computing to analyze them. (p. 151)

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IATH (Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) is considered to bookend the first “distinct phase in the history of humanities computing.” (p. 3)

http://www.iath.virginia.edu

A Hypermedia Research Archive: “The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.” A research installment “built under the auspices of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH).” (p. 3)

http://www.rossettiarchive.org

Humanities and Digital Culture

Humanities computing

How de we study and record knowledge?