Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the ‘Digital Humanities’ in the Context of Originary Technicity
Have the Humanities Always Been Digital? For an Understanding of the ‘Digital Humanities’ in the Context of Originary Technicity
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人文学科一直都是数字化的吗？在原始技术背景下理解“数字人文”
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2012
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F. Frabetti
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这一章位于被称为“数字人文”的边缘，也就是说，这是一门将计算方法应用于文学文本调查的学科。它的目的是通过提出以下命题，对人文学科和数字化之间的关系提出一种新的，有点不同的看法：如果数字人文学科包括对软件，写作和代码的研究，那么他们需要批判性地调查数字化在构成“人文学科”和人类概念中的作用。换句话说，我想建议，对技术和人类的相互构成的深刻理解是数字人文学科开展任何工作的重要组成部分。我将利用“原创技术”的概念（Stiegler 1998, 2009; Derrida 1976, 1994; Beardsworth 1995, 1996）和我自己最近对软件作为一种写作形式的研究——可以被认为是软件研究/代码研究（也是新兴的）领域的一部分——来展示对软件和代码的解构性阅读如何揭示数字和人类的相互共同构成。我还将探讨这样的阅读可能产生的后果——不仅仅是对“人文学科”、媒体和文化研究，还有对纪律的概念本身。
This chapter is situated at the margins of what has become known as ‘digital humanities’, that is, a discipline that applies computational methods of investigation to literary texts. Its aim is to suggest a new, somewhat different take on the relationship between the humanities and digitality by putting forward the following proposition: if the digital humanities encompass the study of software, writing and code, then they need to critically investigate the role of digitality in constituting the very concepts of the ‘humanities’ and the human.In other words, I want to suggest that a deep understanding of the mutual coconstitution of technology and the human is needed as an essential part of any work undertaken within the digital humanities. I will draw on the concept of ‘originary technicity’ (Stiegler 1998, 2009; Derrida 1976, 1994; Beardsworth 1995, 1996) and on my own recent research into software as a form of writing –research that can be considered part of the (also emerging) field of Software Studies/Code Studies – to demonstrate how a deconstructive reading of software and code can shed light on the mutual co-constitution of the digital and the human. I will also investigate what consequences such a reading can have –not just for the ‘humanities’ and for media and cultural studies but also for the very concept of disciplinarity.