by kirsr | Aug 25, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Explorations in Digital Theory
In Walter Benjamin’s, “The Storyteller,” Benjamin laments the gradual decline of the story as oral practice and narrative form in modern society. He remarks, “[b]y now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling, almost everything that...
by kirsr | Aug 16, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
Co-authored by Sara Humphreys [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk] “Kent State Murder” Type it into Google and a number of images, websites, and blogs will come up, along with the Neil Young song above. The historical moment is...
by kirsr | Aug 5, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
One of the most intriguing faculties in the realm of the Digital Humanities I’ve discovered is that this loose and baggy discipline seems to span an innumerable number of disciplines. Today in Toronto’s Public Reference Library, I sat in a cubby with a stack of no...
by kirsr | Aug 4, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
I have been a fan of the films of Stanley Kubrick since I was a teenager. I loved how Kubrick seemed to be a mystic of sorts. He relied on the susceptibility of the audience to be entertained while also being convinced that what they were seeing was reality. ...
by kirsr | Jul 30, 2012 | Explorations in Digital Theory
*trigger warning (this article mentions rape and sexual violence) Since beginning to conceive of a ‘digitizing of the humanities’ within the scope of this social media project, I have developed a hungry curiosity for the relationship that technology has...
by kirsr | Jul 15, 2012 | Explorations in Digital Theory
Text: The wording of anything written or printed; the structure formed by the words in their order; the very words, phrases, and sentences as written (OED) Institute: A society or organization instituted to promote some literary, scientific, artistic, professional, or...
