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Liveblogged Review of Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers, Part 1

I just got Matthew L. Jocker’s Macroanalysis in the mail, and I’m excited enough about it to liveblog my review. Here’s my review of part I (Foundation), all chapters. Read Part 2, Part 3, … Macroanalysis: Digital Methods & Literary History is a book whose time has come. “Individual creativity,” Matthew L. Jockers writes, “is highly […]

In Defense of Collaboration

Being a very round-about review of the new work of fiction by Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Ship’s Logs and Collaborative DH Ben Schmidt has stolen the limelight of the recent digital humanities blogosphere, writing a phenomenal series of not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven posts about […]

Google Maps for the Ancient World

The title of this post comes from an oft-quoted passage of my previous one describing ORBIS, a scholarly argument cleverly disguised as a web tool. Of ORBIS I wrote …given any two cities in the ancient world, it returns the fastest, cheapest, or shortest route between them, given the month, the mode of transportation, and […]

ORBIS: The next step in Digital Humanities

Every once in a while, a new project comes around bearing a message loud and clear: this is a sign of things to come. ORBIS, the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, is one such project. ORBIS was created by Walter Scheidel, Elijah Meeks, and a host of others. At the very beginning, […]

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Liveblogged Review of Macroanalysis by Matthew L. Jockers, Part 1

In Defense of Collaboration

Google Maps for the Ancient World

ORBIS: The next step in Digital Humanities