{"id":12922,"date":"2015-04-20T13:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-digital-humanities-in-the-guise-of\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T13:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:19:39","slug":"but-digital-humanities-in-the-guise-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-digital-humanities-in-the-guise-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But \u201cdigital humanities\u201d in the guise of \u201chumanities computing,\u201d \u201cbig data,\u201d \u201ctopic modelling,\u201d \u201cobject oriented ontology\u201d is not going to save the humanities from the chopping block. It\u2019s 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 this: Why would you turn to a pseudo-STEM field that uses STEM methods to answer your questions, rather than to STEM directly? Indeed, when I brought up \u201ccritical making\u201d \u2014 what some consider to be the perfect marriage of \u201cyack\u201d and \u201chack\u201d \u2014 with my engineer spouse, he commented, \u201cIsn\u2019t engineering already \u2018critical making\u2019?\u201d \u201cCritical making,\u201d in Matt Ratto\u2019s definition, is \u201cprocesses of material and conceptual exploration and creation of novel understandings by the makers themselves.\u201d After mulling over my husband\u2019s remark, I realized that engineering is indeed already practicing critical making as its DH practitioners prescribe it \u2014 arguably better than they are. But in relation to the humanities, engineering does not integrally inspect critical identity categories, access and privilege in the process of making, issues that designate what the humanities considers to be \u201ccritical.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hybridpedagogy.com\/journal\/a-letter-to-the-humanities-dh-will-not-save-you\/\">A Letter to the Humanities: Digital Humanities (DH) Will Not Save You &#8211; Hybrid Pedagogy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But \u201cdigital humanities\u201d in the guise of \u201chumanities computing,\u201d \u201cbig data,\u201d \u201ctopic modelling,\u201d \u201cobject oriented ontology\u201d is not going to save the humanities from the chopping block. It\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}