listening to repeating

This fall semester at Cornish College of the Arts, I’ll be teaching “Introduction to the Digital Humanities” through a code-lite approach that focuses on media ecology, print, and digital texts.  The course description is below, and I’m in the process of a working on a course site.  More soon.

Course description:

How do new media and technologies influence perceptions of print, and how does print affect engagements with technologies and media? With these questions as guides, this class explores conversations between print and digital texts, between old media and new. Some conversations are contemporary, while others are reanimated from the 19th and 20th centuries. Regardless of their time, all are curious, and our goal will be to situate them in the “digital humanities,” or the synthesis of technical skills with critical practices in, for example, the study of literature, culture, and history. To this end, meetings will be conducted in a computer-integrated classroom, and the class will be asked to collaboratively compile a book, with each student contributing an essay, short fiction, or experimental text. Course material will likely include work by Shelley Jackson, Gertrude Stein, William Burroughs, Millie Ness, and Martha Deed. No technical skills required. Sideways thinkers most appreciated.