English 495: The Digital Humanities

In exploring the readings a bit further, it was clear that my entry for last week was way off of the mark. In traditional form, I did what most students do; analyze the reading from a literary perspective (sometimes including …

In the readings from last week, I noticed that the idea of binding organic matterial to a machine is not far from the next stage of where we are heading. My opinion of this fussion or new evolution isn’t based …

Deconstructionists like to disassemble the world through exposing binaries. Foucault and his contemporaries put the lie to concepts of normality, gender, and punishment by showing how these ideas are artificial constructs. These constructs impose what seems to be a self-evident …

Books,novels, stories, articles, music, art, and pretty much anything you can think of can we found on the web. Is this a good thing? In many senses yes, but in some cases no. Some people choose the easy way through …

“The Library of Alexandria was begun in the 4^th century BC and became the largest library in the ancient Greek world, a centre–and symbol–of learning and scholarship. Its accidental destruction by Julius Caesar in 48 BC may not be …

Note: I had written and revised this whole post, and when I went to publish it, it reverted to an earlier form and I lost everything I had typed up since. Does anyone know why this would happen or how …

“The Library of Babel,” by Jorge Luis Borges, explores the concept of a universal library, containing every text that could possibly be written in every possible language. One thing that stands out from Borges’ text is the fact that the …

Taking from the information in the articles, the main problem with the Google Books project is that it fails to establish and maintain copyright with a majority of the authors whose works it will be using. Granted, the problem with …

One of the ways I thought cyborgs could have an impact is with issues of identity. In “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” Donna Harraway seems to talk about gender identity as it pertains to women. She seems to point out an …