On manuscript as technology, an invited chapter for the volume, “Cambridge Critical Concepts in Literary Studies: Technology,” edited by Adam Hammond.

A submitted manuscript under review, posted in accordance with CUP’s Green Open Access Policy.

There is an active trade in human remains facilitated by social media sites. In this paper we ask: can machine learning detect visual signals in photographs indicating that the human remains depicted are for sale? Do such signals even exist? This paper describes an experiment in using Tensorflow and the Google Inception-v3 model against a corpus…[Read more]