Category Archives: C21 Conference

“And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too”: The Dark Side of the Digital (Conference Review)

Posted on May 15, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

Thanks to David Golumbia (Virginia Commonwealth University) for writing this review, which appeared previously at Postcolonial Digital Humanities on May 9, 2013. By David Golumbia From May 2-4 the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted … Continue reading →

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Building Local Autonomy Networks

Posted on March 14, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

 Dark Side of the Digital conference plenary speaker, Micha Cárdenas, doesn’t simply query the ‘dark side’ of digital enthusiasm through her scholarship, she actively confronts the intersections of bodies, technologies, movement and politics through performance.  Milwaukee residents (and visitors!) and UWM students, … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 4

Posted on January 9, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Rita Raley For “The Dark Side of Digital Humanities” (#s307), we were charged with producing 8-minute statements designed to stimulate wide-ranging discussion of the unsaid, understated, or under-theorized economic and political issues that are associated with, attend upon, or … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 3

Posted on January 9, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Patrick Jagoda My remarks at the “Dark Side of the Digital Humanities” MLA roundtable (January 4, 2013) represent some preliminary thoughts and questions about games that I explore in much greater detail in a forthcoming essay (“Gamification and Other … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 2

Posted on January 9, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Richard Grusin [NB: The following paper is an expanded version of the paper I delivered at  #MLA13 #S307.  The text up until the row of asterisks is with only the most minor wording changes identical to my presentation at … Continue reading →

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The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities – Part 1

Posted on January 9, 2013 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun ***This talk was given on 1.4.2013 at the MLA.  It focuses on a paradox surrounding DH: the disparity between the hype surrounding DH and the material work conditions surrounding much DH (adjunct/ soft money positions, … Continue reading →

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Amerithrax and the Nonhuman

Posted on May 17, 2012 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Heather Warren-Crow Let’s begin numerically. Right after 9.11.01, envelopes containing Bacillus anthracis were mailed to 2 US senators, a news anchor, the editor of the New York Post, and the headquarters of the publisher of Playboy and The National … Continue reading →

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Academia as Monstrous Puppet

Posted on May 15, 2012 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Charlotte Frost Within the busy The Nonhuman Turn conference Twitter stream (which was marked by the #c21nonhuman hashtag) there loomed a rather apt entity: a distinctively nonhuman interlocutor by the name of Richard Gruesome. This zombie-esque character, apparently inspired … Continue reading →

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#C21nonhuman

Posted on May 9, 2012 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

How can one capture the excitement, intensity, and enthusiasm of this past weekend’s Nonhuman Turn Conference?  One can point toward the participants’ willingness to continue to think through the ideas discussed during the conference, despite their exhaustion.   UWM English professor, … Continue reading →

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Affect, Epistemology and the Nonhuman Turn

Posted on April 27, 2012 by The Center for 21st Century Studies

By Rebekah Sheldon Over drinks the other evening, a dear colleague posed the following question. He asked: “Is affect nonhuman?” He was thinking about the upcoming Nonhuman Turn conference and the sorts of topics registered by the panel titles. While … Continue reading →

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