PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies
TRANSIT vol. 10, no. 1 David D. Kim PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German StudiesPROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with GoethePROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements I would like to thank Deniz Göktürk for approaching me with the idea of […]
PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe
David D. Kim and Nickolas de Carlo PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of our essay for […]
PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten
David D. Kim and Mark J. Phillips PROLEGOMENON: Distant Reading and Computational Networking in German Studies PROJECT ONE: WorldLiterature@UCLA: Tracking International Publics with Goethe PROJECT TWO: Patterns of the Anthemion: Discovering Networks of Coincidence in W.G. Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten Download PDF Acknowledgements We thank the two anonymous reviewers for their incisive intervention in our essay. […]
Digital Humanities as Translation: Visualizing Franz Rosenzweig’s Archive
Matthew Handelman Download PDF Abstract This article consists of a theoretical framework for and a demonstration of the process of visualizing the finding aid to Franz Rosenzweig’s archive at the University of Kassel, which contains metadata describing documents and letters pertaining to the German-Jewish philosopher, pedagogue, and translator. Its main contention is that much of […]
Network Politics, Wireless Protocols, and Public Space / by Erik Born
Network Politics, Wireless Protocols, and Public Space Erik Born This paper unravels the implications of wireless technology (e.g., GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi) for our understanding of public space in the digital age. I argue that the current push for ubiquitous connectivity, even in community wireless networks and the open spectrum movement, still relies on a rhetoric […]
Digital Reading and the Post-Forensic Imagination / by Lutz Koepnick
Digital Reading and the Post-Forensic Imagination Lutz Koepnick New media theory and criticism remain deeply entangled in what Matthew Kirschenbaum has called the medial ideology: the assumption that the digital age knows neither of material forms of inscription nor of forensic traces left beyond the ephemeral, infinitely malleable, and endlessly fungible flickering of signs on […]
Computer Poems and Codework: Redefining Subjectivity for the Digital Age / by Kurt Beals
Computer Poems and Codework: Redefining Subjectivity for the Digital Age Kurt Beals This paper considers how poets have responded to the changing function of language in the digital age, and specifically how they have developed models of hybrid subjectivity to replace the traditional lyric subject. The first computer poems were written in 1959 in Germany, […]
Intersections of Music, Politics, and Digital Media: Bandista / by Ela Gezen
Intersections of Music, Politics, and Digital Media: Bandista Ela Gezen Bandista, a self-described music collective, was founded in Istanbul in 2006. Through framing texts provided on their website – in Turkish, English, Spanish and German – the band proposes to sing for a world without borders and classes, characterizing their performance as “situationist.” Their internationalist […]
Mimicking the Avant-Garde: Intellectual and Artistic Activism in the Digital Age / by Patrizia C. McBride
Mimicking the Avant-Garde: Intellectual and Artistic Activism in the Digital Age Patrizia C. McBride The paper examines the recurrence of formal structures and tropes drawn from the European avant-garde (Futurism, Dadaism, German and Russian Constructivism) in the theorization of a digital turn that has unfolded in English-language scholarship of the past two decades. In focusing […]
Entertaining Germany in the Digital Age: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Markus Flohr’s Wo samstags immer Sonntag ist (2011) / by Isabelle Hesse
Entertaining Germany in the Digital Age: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Markus Flohr’s Wo samstags immer Sonntag ist (2011) Isabelle Hesse As the recent controversy surrounding the publication of Günter Grass’s poem ‘Was gesagt werden muss’ (2012) confirms, Germany’s relationship with Israel is still an uneasy one, and one that is rarely marked by criticism. In Markus […]