DIGITAL HUMANITIES: FROM SPECULATIVE TO SKEPTICAL
Johanna Drucker

9 October 2015
Media History Research Centre
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec 

After two decades of growing investment in tools, platforms, projects, pedagogy, and promotional campaigns, the challenge to Digital Humanities as a field is whether or not any of this activity has had an intellectual impact on any specific field or discipline.

Johanna Drucker will take us through the methodological foundations of Digital Humanities, its development, and accomplishments, but will also pose a series of questions about what the future should or might look like, and whether there is an intellectual future for this field.

http://www.mediahistoryresearch.com/digital-humanities-from-speculative-to-skeptical/

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Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She was the co-founder of the Speculative Computing Lab, with Jerome McGann, at the University of Virginia, and has published widely on topics related to digitalscholarship, pedagogy, and criticism, including SpecLab (Chicago, 2008) the jointly authored Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick. Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp (MIT, 2013).



Digital Humanities: From Speculative to Skeptical

Rachel Zolf at Charles Bernstein's 111 Class on Experimental Writing. Recorded on 12 October 2015.

I had met with Charles before the class to discuss my research on PennSound and he told me that Rachel would be arriving soon and to talk to his class. I joined and recorded the first 30 or so minutes – until my recorder shut off from being too full, unfortunately.

M.Nardone