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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that derive from the fields of computational linguistics and data visualization—can further illuminate these mysteries. It also describes how the unique demands of the archive of slavery pose challenges to the field of digital humanities as it is currently conceived. By contrasting a set of visualizations...
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Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven Scholarship
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Gary Hall What forms will literary and cultural criticism take in the twenty-first century, given the move toward open access, open data, and open government that is currently being promoted in the name of greater efficiency and transparency? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led...
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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Laura Soderberg Abstract The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt...
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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Aarthi Vadde Enumerations: Data and Literary Study . By Andrew Piper . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2018 . xiii, 243. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication . By Brian Lennon . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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Data/Dispossession
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... or disabled on the basis of that score; for example, cops prevent certain people from entering a designated place, meeting each other, or engaging in certain activities. Where, in this network of social interactions, data collection techniques, machine-learning processes, algorithmic decisions, and concrete...
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Cultural Gradients and the Sociotechnics of Data
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Photography. March , https://unthinking.photography/articles/unevenly-distributed . On display throughout Data / Set / Match are the two streams, up and down, upon which Roberge and Castelle’s collection is also trained. The exhibition’s many facets collectively hold these streams in tension...
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Ugly Data in the Age of Weather Satellites
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
Published: 01 December 2016
... through rapid-scanning technology, captured the enormity of the storm, its dynamic cloud structure, and the sharpening of the storm’s eye as the continent dimmed under the setting sun. But despite the complicated process of data gathering and transmission that is involved in meteorological satellite...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Katherine D. Johnston Abstract This essay analyzes increasingly ubiquitous data collection and posits that metafiction is especially well suited to grapple with the significance of metadata and data surveillance, given its own preoccupation with watching itself watch. Making a critical intervention...
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Making the Perfect Record
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., audio playback, and visual culture—early magnetic recording materialized. In so doing, the essay offers scholars of both new and old media a sense of how we might better historicize the ostensible permanence and immateriality of contemporary data cultures and their digital economies. “Making the Perfect...
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All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... invites a closer examination of the relationship between word and world in AI research. The author argues for a reading of microworlds research and of AI more broadly through the lens of literary realism and through the literary texts that comprise its data sets and from which researchers expect...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO
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American Literature 11792403.
Published: 07 March 2025
... and instrumentalized. Next, she reads Harriot’s Report to show that the IPO itself constitutes an episteme. To rationalize an enormously speculative venture, Harriot isolates and presents verifiable, reproducible data that will allow prospective investors to gauge the likelihood of financial return—he assumes...
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Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., Wells pushed mere counting past itself to a profound mode of ethical accounting. Two of her contemporaries, Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois, sustained a similarly supraquantitative thrust; each attempted to harness the antilynching potential of numbers by enlisting data visualization. Twain falls short...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 2 Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden: Our Stories Are Algorithms . Installation view, On Love and Data exhibition, Stamps Gallery, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 31 to October 23, 2021. Photograph: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in which AIs are everywhere, used for everything. Instead, we can teach students to use AIs more responsibly. We can help them understand how AIs generate knowledge claims, how their language models work, how they map data relationships and forge inferential connections. Students need to know how to take...
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The Many Ecologies of AI
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the metaphors and data that make possible any AI representation of the world—not only their energy cost but also the life forms and ecologies that undergird fluid and botanical figurations. In this passage, we discover that Obi-3 has been able to care for Anwuli because she disabled its privacy filter...
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What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... on what tech bros decide to chase .” Twitter, April 5 , 5:16 p.m. https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1511452709135654917 . Halpern Orit , Jagoda Patrick , Kirkwood Jeffrey West , and Weatherby Leif , eds. 2022 . “ Surplus Data .” Special Issue. Critical Inquiry 48...
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Aesthetics and the Infrastructural Turn in the Digital Humanities
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jessica Hurley Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 . By Halpern Orit . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . ix, 342 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper, $27.95 . The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism . By Jaffe Aaron . Minneapolis...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 615–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
... , 83 – 110 . New York : Harcourt, Brace and World . Burdick Anne . 2012 . Digital_Humanities . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gitelman Lisa . 2006 . Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gold Matthew K. , ed. 2012...
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Index to Volume 85 (March 2013-December 2013)
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
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Grausam, Daniel. Review Essay: “The Way We Talk Now about the Way
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