Critical DH Group – All welcome!
Fall 2014 – Spring 2015
Based in part upon the public discussion of the concept of ‘Critical DH’ at ‘The Many Masks/Masques of Heidegger: Technology, Poeisis and Humanism: A Literary Theory Research Group Symposium’ (The Seminar for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Vancouver Island University, Cowichan Campus, May 2014), Richard J. Lane (MeTA DH Lab, VIU) and Emile Fromet de Rosnay (Dept. of French, UVic), now invite the academic community to meet to discuss some of the theoretical interests sketched so far (see lists below). While these lists are obviously in no way exhaustive, they do form the focus for the first year that this group aims to meet.
We invite position papers of five to ten minutes on the topics below (or simply join us to hear the papers and hopefully join in with some discussion). Our meeting format will consist of short position paper presentations followed by discussion. We are open to theoretical considerations/presentations of DH projects underway, especially where such projects intersect with the concepts, methods, and/or theorists we aim to explore in our first year.
Concepts, methods, etc.
• Dialectical materialism
• Materiality
• Little data
• Close reading vs distant reading
• media, mediation, remediation
• DH and postcolonialism (#dhpoco)
• Institutionalized DH
• DH and social sciences – anthropology, sociology, political science, geography etc.
• DH and object-oriented ontology (OOO)
• DH, biosemiotics and biotechnology
• Critical making
Thinkers (conceptualizing DH through a focused theorist/lens)
• Benjamin
• McLuhan
• Drucker
• Heidegger
• Sloterdijk
• Haraway
• Foucault
• Agamben
• Derrida
• Gans
• Latour
• Baudrillard
• Butler
• Moretti
• Thacker, Galloway, Lovink
• Hayles
Meeting Dates & Locations:
Friday Oct 24, 2014, 10.00 to 12.00 am, University of Victoria, Room HSD A264
Friday Nov 28, 2014, 9.00 to 11.00 am, University of Victoria, Room HSD A264
Friday Feb 27, 2015, 10 to 12.00 am, Vancouver Island University, details tba.
Spring 2015, one day symposium, Vancouver Island University, details & exact date tba.
Contact: Richard.Lane@viu.ca || @RichardJLane1 || http://web.viu.ca/richardlane/index.html