Jacob Heil
WHO I AM I am the Assistant Director for Digital Learning in Davidson College's E.H. Little Library.
InterHumanities
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Betweenness in the Digital Humanities
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Interventionality
Interconnectedness
Intertwingularity
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Intertwingularity
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EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED
Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -- people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't.
In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross connections among the myriad topics of this world simpy cannot be divided up neatly.
-- Nelson, Dream Machines (1987), p.31
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Systems Humanists
“... [are] striving to further the ideals of the humanist perspective by the best available means.” Which means “finding the ways that human literature, art and thought — including science, of course — may best be facilitated, preserved, and disseminated.”
TECNOIDS:
"technical types" (Literary Machines, 1-11)
FLUFFIES:
“those with a humanistic background, in literature, history, the arts, etc” (Literary Machines, 1-11)
(Nelson, Literary Machines, 1-13)
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Systems Humanists
Computing Humanists
Digital Humanists
Intertwingularity
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Interconnectedness
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Interpreter
Interstital
Interconnecting
Human Betweenness
Driving Conversations
Defining Roles
Drawing Responsibilities
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Kinds of Collaboration
Coincidental Collaboration
Intentional Collaboration
Serial Collaboration
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Kinds of Collaboration
Framing our Conversations
Making Collaborations Ethical and Equitable
Why "Kinds"?
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Interventionality
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Interventionality
Articulating Value
- Contextualizing Roles, Translating Goals
- Locating the Humanistic Question
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Interventionality
Articulating Values
- What changes are you affecting?
- How do you situate yourself between parts of existing structures?
- What intervention are you making?
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Interventionality
and Betweenness
- Asks your project to work in-between the parts of a system.
- Asks you to work in-between your project and your publics.
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Thank you!!
jheil [at] wooster [dot] edu
InterHumanities
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@dr_heil
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Betweenness in the Digital Humanities
- Jahobr. Unnecessarily Complicated Gears. 20 June 2017, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unnecessarily_complicated_gears_a.gif.
- Jens, Gathmann. Aachen, Technische Hochschule, Rechenzentrum. 23 Mar. 1970. German Federal Archives, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F031434-0006%2C_Aachen%2C_Technische_Hochschule%2C_Rechenzentrum.jpg.
- Nelson, Theodor H. Computer Lib ; Dream Machines. Rev. & Updated ed, Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1987.
- ---. Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now. 1st ed, Nelson : [available] from Hugo’s Book Service, 1974.
- ---. Literary Machines. Mindful Press, 1993.
- Wright, Alex. “The Secret History of Hypertext.” The Atlantic, May 2014. The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/in-search-of-the-proto-memex/371385/.
Bibliography
Betweenness in Digital Humanities
By Jacob Heil
Betweenness in Digital Humanities
This is the slide deck for my talk at the 2018 conference for the Undergraduate Network for Research in the Humanities (UNRH), wherein I talk about the difficulties of collaboration, why it's important, and how we can make our work count.
