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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Digital Humanities: "Patterns and Meanin
 g"
DTSTART:20160301T140000
DTEND:20160301T150000
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CATEGORIES:Cultural events
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Franco Moretti Stanford University\n“No  one  has  
 ever  seen  the  objects  studied  by  contemporary  historians”\
 ,\nKrzysztof Pomian wrote a few years ago\, “and no one could ever have 
 seen them\n[...] because they have no equivalent within lived experience
 ”. True\, no one has a\n“lived experience” of demographic change or 
 of literacy rates – or of image like\nthose used by computational critic
 ism (or digital humanities\, as they have been\ndisastrously named by the 
 US federal agency in charge of funding them). We are\nstill studying novel
 s\, in the new space of literary labs\, but we prepare them for\nanalysis
   in  a  way  that  changes  what  is  in  front  of  our  eye
 s\,  and  in  a  way  that\nfully supports  Pomian’s  point. Read
 ing  a  novel\,  watching  a  play\,  listening  to  a\npoem:  th
 is  is  the “lived  experience”  of  literature.  The  images 
  of  computational\ncriticism  are abstractions.  So:  what  does  i
 t  mean\,  studying  literature  through  a\nseries of abstractions?
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