Nearly a decade ago, Johanna Drucker cofounded the University of
Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to
risky projects with serious aims. In "SpecLab "she explores the
implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and
aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on
analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers
of graphic arts and experimental literature and the technical
possibilities of computation and information management, the
projects Drucker engages range from Subjective Meteorology to
Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized 'Patacritical Demon,
an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our
interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such
experiments could enable, "SpecLab" functions as more than a set of
case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic
inquiry. It also exemplifies Drucker's contention that humanists
must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital
age--models that will determine how our culture will function in
years to come.
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