Author Archives: Carol Chiodo
One man’s trash . . . is another man’s archive
“The most difficult thing about collecting is discarding.” – Albert Köster The photo above was taken outside Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. Those long rectangular drawers you see are what’s left of of that pre-digital archive known as the … Continue reading
Expanding Debates in the Digital Humanities
Jen Howard has a review in the Times Literary Supplement on Matthew Gold’s edited volume, Debates in the Digital Humanities. Gold is an assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology, an advisor to the Provost for … Continue reading
Modlab at Yale and a voyage to Italy
It’s day 1 of the ModLab Workshop at Yale with Dean Irvine, Matt Huculak, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, and Alan Stanley. We have great group of participants from across the disciplines – from anthropology to East Asian studies and from English to … Continue reading
De nostri temporis studiorum ratione: Giambattista Vico and digital ecosystems
It might seem anachronistic to call on the work of an eighteenth century philosopher to elucidate some of the issues at play in the debates swirling around the digital humanities, but Giambattista Vico has been on my mind lately as … Continue reading
A boundless domain of culture?
Debates and the digital humanities There has been a flurry of debates recently surrounding the digital humanities, sparked in part by the publication of Matthew Gold’s volume, Debates in the Digital Humanities, and Stanley Fish’s extended responses in the New … Continue reading