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# 72
Method without Methodology: Data and the Digital Humanities
Lindsay Caplan
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
Category
Data & Information, Photography
Subjects
Maps, Social Media, Digital Humanities
# 51
Framing Artwork
Lindsay Caplan
My premise is this: that the ways in which we describe and understand artistic labor are integrally tied to how we imagine what artworks should do in the world. Underlying the idea of artistic production as authentic, voluntary, and self-valorizing, for example, is the utopian promise that art is prefigurative, that it can posit in an experimental, provisional way the liberatory modes of being we wish for everybody. Another idea—that art production is exploitative, alienated, precarious, and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2014
Category
Labor & Work, Contemporary Art