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Sidney Freeman

Hiroki Azuma's Otaku (2009)

"Simply put, it is a general term referring to those who indulge in forms of subculture strongly linked to anime, video game, computers, science fiction, special effect films, anime figurines, and so on. 

William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)

“But he also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.” pg 11

 

The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy.” pg 154

The purpose of having my quote collage is to show the different boundaries that occur through the different mediums we use. And with the use of Digital Humanities, we are now able to have a more definitive way to accurately assess the different boundaries that are constantly changing every day.

Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto

“So my cyborg myth is about transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities which progressive people might explore as one part of needed political work. One of my premises is that most American socialists and feminists see deepened dualisms of mind and body, animal and machine, idealism and materialism in the social practices, symbolic formula-tions, and physical artefacts associated with 'high technology' and scientific culture" 


 

Other Quotes

“But I think more importantly, the way I understand how I do humanities work and how I approach history is deeply informed by what I understand to be my digital world and the digital landscape with which I engage. The digital influences the way that I approach the archive; my understanding of how to read sources and how people in the past and present are engaged with each other; and how to read into things that are more ephemeral, like the moments in which we laugh, in which language changes, and the shorthand languages that we use among each other that define who is kin, friend, or enemy. Those moments or spaces that are more ephemeral are both analogous to me of social media spaces and also of the ways and moments that diasporic black folk have played in the fragments of the archives.

Does this qualify as digital humanities? Yes, I think social media qualifies, and in that sense I do care because I think social media work is a labor that gets short shrift in the upper echelons of power in the academy.”[1]

 

[1] https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/digital-humanities-interview-jessica-marie-johnson

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