I use the right hemisphere, while they’re trying to use the left hemisphere.
They have preconceptions.. whereas the right hemisphere is a world of perceptions without concepts.
This threatens the left-brained education establishment. And is more like the Third World.
McLuhan: not interested in transportation, but transformation
My kind of study is a theory of transformation.. [not] transportation.
The goal is not to get the message through
.. My concern is, what do the media do to the people that use it.. how people are changed by the instruments that they employ.
McLuthan: Opposed to innovation and change
I would rather live in any period at all as long as people leave it alone.
.. I am resolutely opposed to all innovation.. all change, but I am determined to understand what is happening.
Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web, by Jerome McGann
The archive was built under the auspices of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in Humanities (IATGH), which was founded the same year as The Rosseti Archive was begun..
The use of IT in humanities disciplines began in the late 1940s with Father Roberto Busa SJ, whose work on the copus of St. Thomas Aquinas set the terms in which humanities computing would operate successfully for more than 40 years. Two lines of work dominate the period: first the creation of databases of humanities materials — almost exclusively textual materials — for various types of automated retrieval, search, and analysis; second, the design and construction of statistical models for studying language formalities of many kinds, ranging from social and historical linguistics to the study of literary forms.
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