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SUMMARY:Humanities and Infrastructures: A Contradiction in Terms? - Pierre
  Mounier’s seminar on Governing Digital Knowledge Infrastructures.
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DESCRIPTION:Pierre Mounier\nThe College of Humanities and the Laboratory f
 or the History of Science and Technology are pleased to invite you to the 
 fifth session of Pierre Mounier’s monthly seminar on Governing Digital K
 nowledge Infrastructures.\n \nFri. 25th February\, 10am\, EPFL room INN 1
 28 and Online\, registration compulsory (see below)\n\nHumanities and Infr
 astructures: A Contradiction in Terms?\n\nAbstract\nAt first sight\, “hu
 manities infrastructures” sound like a contradiction in terms. While hum
 anities understood in their specificity as hermeneutic practices\, thrive 
 on tension and imply reflexive debate and dialogue\, infrastructures\, on 
 the contrary\, would rather designate rigidly built frameworks made to be 
 forgotten by their very users. Rather than resolving this contradiction\, 
 what can we learn from it?\n\nIndeed\, hermeneutic and dialogical practice
 s are well suited to lead a humanistic critique of infrastructures. Callin
 g on concepts and methods from (critical) humanities\, how can we make exi
 sting infrastructures visible and highlight their effects on knowledge pro
 duction? Reciprocally\, such critique could feed reflections on how to des
 ign infrastructures for the humanities that would ensure critical thinking
 . How can we conceive infrastructures that will foster humanistic tensions
  by driving its users to develop a critical praxis?\n\nTo that end\, drawi
 ng on our own experiences of digital knowledge infrastructures\, we will d
 iscuss and debate how the works of Johanna Drucker on the digital humaniti
 es and Patrik Svensson on “humane infrastructures” intersect at a poin
 t where contradiction becomes heuristic.\n\nFri. 25th Feb.\, 10-12am CET\n
 Hybrid setup: at EPFL in room INN 128 (please register here) and online (e
 mail simon.dumasprimbault@epfl.ch to get the Zoom link)\n\nRéférences:\n
 \n	Svensson\, Patrik\, “Shifting Frames: Towards Humane Infrastructures\
 ,” keynote for OPERAS workshop “Knowledge infrastructures and digital 
 governance. History\, challenges\, practices.” 7-8 September 2020 https:
 //vimeo.com/458099622/a9836a5bb0 \n	Drucker\, Johanna\, “Humanistic The
 ory and Digital Scholarship\,” in Debates in the Digital Humanities\, ed
 . M. K. Gold\, Minneapolis: Unniversity of Minnesota Press\, 2012\, pp. 85
 -95\, https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-
 3fdb36bfbd1e/section/0b495250-97af-4046-91ff-98b6ea9f83c0\n	Drucker\, Joha
 nna and Patrik Svensson\, “The Why and How of Middleware\,” Digital Hu
 manities Quarterly 010\, no 2 (19th May 2016). http://www.digitalhumanitie
 s.org/dhq/vol/10/2/000248/000248.html\n
LOCATION:INN 128 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==INN%20128
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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