Lunch and a mid-afternoon workout (planned but not done!) slow down production because my brain tends to pop into overdrive if I engage too much with everything.
Meanwhile, I’m gearing up for a trip to Philadelphia to deliver one of the plenaries for Re:Humanities. Two of the Beard-stair students are headed there too to present their work on this digital project. I’ve been traveling around giving talks to various sorts. I think I’m mostly a bridge person between DH and traditional literary or Humanities scholars. I still do history of the book and print culture with a Romanticist’s flair, but I also consider on a small scale the value of using digital media/tools to help answer some of my questions and then create new ones. These undergrads aren’t interested in what’s behind the curtain, though. No digital pedagogy for them. Instead, I want to talk to them about “doing the risky thing,” something I’ll also address at the CUNY DHI talk next week on “Risking Failure.”
But, for now, it’s lunch.
…and posting a response to an ongoing conversation about “archives” over at Archives Next, a post on archives that quickly became heated in the comments, I suspect because archivists are a little anxious about their position in Digital Humanities. Matt Kirschenbaum stepped in with some interesting points.