Exploring the Adoption of STEM Praxis in the Digital Humanities - Sarah C. Stanley and Matthew E. Hunter

1. Exploring the Adoption of STEM Praxis
in the Digital Humanities
Sarah C. Stanley and Matthew E. Hunter
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2. Chris Lorenz: “If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance?
Universities, Neoliberalism and New Public Management.” Critical Inquiry
38.3
“a constant decrease in the level and quality of employment [...], which comes
down to a steady process of deprofessionalization and a reduction in the number
and the quality of jobs;; and [...] constantly rising prices for the consumers of
services such as education.”
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3. “neoliberal policy targets institutions and activities which lie outside of the market,
such as universities [...] so as to bring them inside the market, through acts of
privatization;; or to reinvent them in a ‘market-­like’ way”
William Davies: Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism
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4. LARB
“pushing the discipline toward post-­interpretative, non-­suspicious, technocratic,
conservative, managerial, lab-­based practice.”
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5. Matthew Kirschenbaum: Digital Humanities As/Is a Tactical Term
“Digital humanities is a term possessed of enough currency and escape velocity to
penetrate layers of administrative strata to get funds allocated, initiatives under
way, and plans set in motion”
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6. “[project-­based funding allows for cultural hegemony to be] controlled by the small
groups that have control over the allotment thereof. Each project is seemingly
disconnected from every other and no direct connection can be drawn between
their features, except that they all focus on some broadly-­construed, necessarily
vague theme.”
Martin & Runyon: Digital Humanities, Digital Hegemony
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7. Lorenz: If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance?
“Information, especially financial information, is increasingly treated as the private
property of management. Money is power, and so is information about money.”
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8. The cover of Jeff Flake’s 20 Questions (no, really)
Can be found at the
Senator’s site at
http://flake.senate.gov
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9. “in an institutional context in which a corporate administrative class is already
mystified by humanities research that it cannot assess in terms of the amorphous
metrics of “excellence” and “innovation,” one might say that the digital humanities
is also particularly well positioned to exploit the expectation that we should be
affectively awed by instrumentation”
Rita Raley: Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
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10. Anderson, Bannister, Dodd, Fong, Levy, Seatter:
“Student Labour and Training in the Digital
Humanities” Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.1
(2016)
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11. Jorge Cham -­ PhD Comics, 3/13/2005
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=562

12. Thank you.