SpecLab by Johanna Drucker

SpecLab by Johanna Drucker

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Written by the author who cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims, this book 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.

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SpecLab by Johanna Drucker

Written by the author who cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims, this book 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.
"Clearly and incisively written, this book provides digital humanities with a much-needed critiqueIt 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"
Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of several books, including Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN 13 9780226165080
ISBN 10 0226165086
Title SpecLab
Author Johanna Drucker
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2009-05-01
Number of pages 264
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