Great ideas! Thanks for getting us started with brainstorming. I’ve moved your comments over to a Google doc that we can begin to use to keep track of these ideas as we move forward: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NQ6BZO4UDaIAvw3fVNYq258X5qFhV62MmgbsITlOzXA/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you, Saniyah, for drawing our attention back to what Foucault has to say about “the subject” and subject formation. I don’t think we gave this (tricky!) concept very nearly enough time in class.

Something that always sticks out for me with Foucault: it is the process of turning humans into the OBJECT of knowledge (think about psychology,…[Read more]

Thank you so much for bringing this up, Margaret! I think we need to talk about this. Data is absolutely not carbon neutral. Nor are archives.

Maybe we can add this reading to the syllabus for later? https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yg3g/climate-change-could-erase-human-history-these-archivists-are-trying-to-save-it

This is such a fascinating debate. Is there room for another alternative? Peter and Jess argue that companies are going to act in their self-interest and users have the right to opt out; Ethan points out that the TOS are unreasonable so opting out isn’t *really* an option (but then says we just have to accept it).

But what about regulation? Is…[Read more]

Claire, I appreciate your last paragraph — what a perfect recapitulation of the arguments we’ve been discussing and their importance.

Indigenous knowledges have become a big part of digital humanities. We’ll talk about it more in a few weeks, but in the meantime, a few links here might interest you and others:…[Read more]