[-empyre-] Engineering the University - Closing Week 03

[Julia Flanders]

Just a quick note to thank everyone for their thoughtful comments, and to Rhiannon for her great questions and guidance. I've enjoyed spending a week thinking through these issues with you all and have learned a lot myself in the process.

best wishes, Julia

> On Mar 23, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Hamilton, Kevin <kham at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
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> Hello all,
> 
> This week Rhiannon and Julia took the occasion of the newly visible labor
> afforded by Digital Humanities research to dive more deeply into the
> details of where values emerge at the level of applied technical
> problem-solving and collective disciplinary work. It should come as no
> surprise to those on the list familiar with Art-Science, Research
> Creation, or Art and Technology discourses that one has to get into such
> details before the clearest and hardest questions emerge. Clearer
> critiques and discernible choices emerge at such levels of specificity, as
> do the various possible arrangements by which we might explicitly address
> the different divisions of labor, responsibility, and reward of our moment.
> 
> I really appreciate how the discussion of "standards" that Rhiannon and
> Julia left us with  challenges us to recognize the discipline-making we
> all do, despite how uncomfortable some might be with the idea. This
> resonates for me with scholarship in anthropology and social theory that
> shows how the valuing of the "interdisciplinary" is of a piece with
> disciplinary work - a part of the process of producing boundaries.
> 
> Rhiannon and Julia did some mammoth work this week. Julia especially gave
> a great deal to the task of describing the different convergent and
> divergent conversations taking place in the "estuary" of Digital
> Humanities, and orienting  us to the precedents and problems in that area.
> I found her description of the landscape some of the most lucid I've
> encountered, with great connections, for what its worth, to some equally
> valuable work I recently encountered from Beth Novwiskie, a colleague of
> Chad's at University of Virginia. (Posted at
> http://nowviskie.org/2015/a-game-nonetheless/ as a response to a paper I
> recently delivered.)
> 
> I'll be back later today to introduce our final week of the month's
> conversation. For now, I want to thank Julia and Rhiannon so much for
> their generosity, and also Ben, Murat and others for wading in with
> questions and clarifications.
> 
> More later today,
> 
> Kevin 
> 
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