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Postcolonial Studies, Digital Humanities, and the Politics of Language

By David Golumbia | Published: May 31, 2013
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Excerpted from a longer essay in progress. Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam recently started an open thread on DHPoco based around an observation by Martha Nell Smith about the politics of race and gender in the digital humanities. I find these topics distinctly connected to questions about language and the relationship of various humanities fields. […]

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Claritas PRIZM Marketing Segments (What Are Computers For? #X-7)

By David Golumbia | Published: March 9, 2007
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Long gone from the servers, company itself swallowed several times, preserved for later analysis (see the discussion on pages 131-142 of The Cultural Logic of Computation). This is only the marketing literature for a program that was far more detailed and targeted than even this may appear; it demonstrates fairly clearly how racial and economic […]

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