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shrinkrants: It is hard to imagine fields like Gender Studies and Queer Studies without Foucault’s shaping influence. The so-called “historical turn” in the humanities, inspired by the New Historicism that Foucault’s dialogues with colleagues at Berkeley helped shape, has informed the expectations placed on graduate students for the past 20 years. Where students in literature…
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Salon: What about the idea that the Internet is somehow degrading the quality of the art people make these days? Doctorow: The right way to think about the way technology and art interact is that it creates and it takes away opportunities for different kinds of artists — some of whom are improbable until the…
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This strategy of using databases online to make otherwise rare texts widely accessible and searchable was in keeping with what we now call “digital humanities” research. What happened next, in the middle of building the database, was a recognition that moving the texts through an electronic version of Brown’s machine — or through the analogous…