Distance and Depth
Understanding the intersect of literary text and computers.
Tag: Literary Studies
The Romantics and the Information Age
The fortunes of literature and how the culture of data is older than we think.
Narratives of Narcissistic Democracy and Rational Tyranny
How Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism remains painfully relevant.
Remembering (and forgetting) Old Poetry
Why Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me still means Something, and How. PETER MURPHY Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1535-37. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Picture a bright modern classroom, somewhere, in which students sit, perhaps in a semicircle …
Implicated Subjects, Reparations, and the Afterlives of Slavery
To confront the legacies of slavery we need a new theory of historical responsibility MICHAEL ROTHBERG “Reparations” by Daquella manera is licensed under CC CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication When I wrote about the question of reparations for slavery in my new book, The Implicated Subject, I did …
Sequelae and Sensibility
From classic novels to current news, the power of sympathy—who gets to have it, and how—drives the stories we tell ourselves. by WENDY ANNE LEE Supreme Court, Washington D.C., 2018. Two protesters hold a sign declaring support for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a rally …
SCIENCE FAKE AND REAL
On Enlightenment scientists and the forgotten role of imagination. by TITA CHICO March for Science in San Francisco. Photo by Steve Rapport, CCBY2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Headlines today pop with accusations that traditional sources of knowledge and even experts are biased, ideological, and unreliable. Accusations …
