Weekly Schedule

Week 01

January 16, 2018 In advance of class, please read the following excerpts below in the enumerated order. There are 3 multi-page excerpts from Felski, Levine, and Morgan & Morrison. I’ve attached those pdfs to an email. Each pdf includes only the pages that you need to read. 1) “The phrase hermeneutics of suspicion is often used in philosophy and literary theory. [Paul Ricouer] describes it as an overly …

Week 02

January 23 Caroline Levine, Chapter Two “Whole” (24-48) and Chapter Three “Rhythm” (49-81) in Forms. Franco Moretti. Introduction and Chapter One “Graphs” from Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History. Verso, 2007. Supplemental: “I don’t know all the circuitry” Jentery Sayers (1-17) and “Loss Sets” Aaron Tucker, Jordan Scott, Tiffany Cheung, and Namir Ahmed …

Week 03

January 30 “Hierarchy” in Levine, Forms. (82-111) 3 examples of hierarchy: Kim Gallon, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities” from Debates in the Digital Humanities Roopika Risam “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities in Theory and Practice” Deb Verhoeven“Have You seen a Woman”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOil5_at8EI If you are interested: supplemental, not required: Christine L. Masters “Women’s …

Week 04

February6 No Class

Week 05

February 13 “Network” in Levine Forms(112-131) “Queer OS: A User’s Manual” Fiona Barnett, Zach Blas, micha cardenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, and Margaret Rhee from Debates in the Digital Humanities. Eds. Gold and Klein. “Father Busa’s Female Punch Card Operatives” Melissa Terras and Julianne Nyhan from Debates in the Digital Humanities. Eds. Gold and …

Week 06

February 20 Lori Emerson from Reading Writing Interfaces From the Digital to the Bookbound, University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Chapter One “Indistinguishable from Magic: Invisible Interfaces and Digital Literature as Demystifier,” Chapter Two “From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly,” Postscript: The Googlization of Literature” (163-184). We will also read …

Week 07

February 27  Arduino LAB Arduino / Physical Computing, Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication for Reading and Writing Interfaces. “New Old Things: Fabrication, Physical Computing, and Experiment in Historical Practice” Devon Elliott, Robert MacDougall, & William J. Turkel Sayers “Prototyping the Past.” The Visible Language Journal: the Journal of Visual Communication Research. 49.3, (2015). 156-177. Three …

Week 08

March 6         Arduinos Lab continued (this week we will use the following light readings as inspiration points for a series of challenges that emphasize fabrication–how one reframes the LCD screen specifically—for different effect) Debbie Chachra “Why I am not a Maker,” in The Atlantic (it is also Chapter 36 in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries) …

Week 09

March 13       Spring Break

Week 10

March 20       LAB:Intro to Sketchup. 3D Prototyping with Sketchup. We will play with “Objects” from Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15396/pg15396.txt *note, read this section in Tender Buttons. If you are not familiar with Gertrude Stein A) you are in for a treat B) don’t be put off by the playful non-mimetic effects C) think about how …

Week 11

March 27         This week’s reading has us focusing on the materials of analysis and forms analysis make take. What is the status of these objects? Can “thing theory” aid us? “Thing Theory” in Critical Inquiry. Bill Brown PDF “Plastics” from Roland Barthes Mythologies We will also discuss the Garfinkel and Konkol pieces which …

Week 12

April 3           Morreti, “Graphs,” “Trees,” and “Conclusion.” Moretti and ethical citation: https://s-usih.org/2018/10/metoo-and-the-politics-of-citation/and https://chroniclevitae.com/news/2099-should-we-still-cite-the-scholarship-of-serial-harassers-and-sexists “Cat Person” 4/3 AT 4:20 PM DUE IN YOUR PERSONAL SUBMISSION FOLDER: Analyzing Literature with 3D Prototyping

Week 13

April 3           Morreti, “Graphs,” “Trees,” and “Conclusion.” Moretti and ethical citation: https://s-usih.org/2018/10/metoo-and-the-politics-of-citation/and https://chroniclevitae.com/news/2099-should-we-still-cite-the-scholarship-of-serial-harassers-and-sexists “Cat Person” 4/3 AT 4:20 PM DUE IN YOUR PERSONAL SUBMISSION FOLDER: Analyzing Literature with 3D Prototyping

Week 14

April 10          Sociologies of Literature, Histories of Reading, Reading Machines, Dialogic Objects & Computation StephenRamseyReading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Chapter One. PDF  “Aggregation, Public Criticism, and the History of Reading Big Data” Benjamin Mangrum (1207-1224) in PMLA, 133.5 (October 2018) “Octophone,” J. Sayers. PDF Craig Saper “Microfilm Lasts Half a Millenium” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/microfilm-lasts-half-a-millennium/565643/(July 22, 2018)

Week 15

April 17 Algorithms of Oppression. In-class lab making twitterbots for social conscience.

Week 16

April 24         Twitterbots for Social Conscience  Final Papers Due: May 3, 2019 at 4:20pm