Having an epistemological relationship with reality means being a critical examiner of your experience, questioning and interpreting you life and education rather than merely walking through them. Paulo Freire (via kunsthandwerk)

Correa for &&&: Alex, I’m interested to see how philosophy as such has a certain take about the ways that more conventional art has been transcribed into the realm of the Internet; the vast majority of art is produced in an analogue way and thus becomes digital. Galloway: One of the things I’m trying to…

In other words, Humanities Computing (and its successor, Digital Humanities) has focused on using computational tools to further humanities research, and not to study the effects of computation as a humanities question. A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You – Hybrid Pedagogy rafaelfajardo: I added the part in parenthesis above for clarity.

But “digital humanities” in the guise of “humanities computing,” “big data,” “topic modelling,” “object oriented ontology” is not going to save the humanities from the chopping block. It’s only going to push the humanities further over the precipice. Because these methods alone make up a field which is simply a handmaiden to STEM. Think about…

But from the spring of 2012 through last spring, only 250 non-UC students finished a class. By then, the system had pretty much abandoned the idea of making money by targeting non-UC students—though a few classes remain available—and focused on letting UC students enroll in courses on other campuses that they couldn’t get into on…

Technology Review: As an example of a project that has made a difference, your book cites Digital Green. It makes and shows videos in which farmers in India share advice about planting techniques or how to handle animals. What makes that successful? Toyama: We were very cautious that the technology doesn’t replace an existing agriculture…

What is astonishing and illuminating is that, between cups, no Icelander talks much or at all about the most obvious thing about the compulsive coffee-drinking – that it is a triumph of trade. The beans have had to come from very, very far away to fuel what one proud Icelander called “this barren and isolated…