SpecLab : Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing - Johanna Drucker

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Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing

By: Johanna Drucker

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Paperback | 1 June 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of Virginia¢s SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. In SpecLab she explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge.

Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists¢ Books Online to the as yet unrealized ¢Patacritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, SpecLab functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker¢s contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age¢"models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.

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"Clearly and incisively written, this book provides digital humanities with a much-needed critique. It gives the field guidance for its ever-faster-approaching futures and documents SpecLab's important critical and interpretive interventions in humanities research and teaching." - John Cayley, Brown University"

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Non-Fiction Education Education Equipment & Technology Library & Info Sciences Computing & I.T.Computer Science Image Processing Science Science in General Artificial Intelligence Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services

Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles General Issues in Art Art Treatments & Subjects

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction: The Background to SpecLab	p. xi
Speculative Computing	p. 1
From Digital Humanities to Speculative Computing	p. 3
Speculative Computing: Basic Principles and Essential Distinctions	p. 19
Projects At Speclab	p. 31
Temporal Modeling	p. 37
Ivanhoe	p. 65
Subjective Meteorology: A System of Mapping Personal Weather	p. 99
Modeling a Critical Approach: Metadata in ABsOnline	p. 109
The 'Patacritical Demon	p. 119
From Aesthetics To Aesthesis	p. 127
Graphesis and Code	p. 133
Intimations of (Im) materiality: Text as Code in the Electronic Environment	p. 145
Modeling Functionality: From Codex to e-Book	p. 165
Aesthetics and New Media	p. 175
Digital Aesthetics and Critical Opposition	p. 189
Lessons Of Speclab	p. 197
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 229
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