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"What Infrastructure Assumes" — a talk by Alan Liu – Friday, Feb 15, 4pm (GC)

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    This Friday, noted DH Scholar Alan Liu will be visiting the GC to give a talk in the English program, co-sponsored by the GC’s MA program in Digital Humanities and GC Digital Initiatives. Please join us!

    Friday Forum
    February 15, 5pm
    Reception to Follow
    English lounge – room 4406

    “What Infrastructure Assumes: Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies”

    In this talk, Alan Liu positions the digital humanities in relation to current “critical infrastructure studies.” What have been the main approaches to and influences on the study of infrastructure that now makes it of such compelling social, cultural, and humanistic—as well as technical and politico-economic—interest? How does digital humanities infrastructure contribute to that larger frame of concern? Liu concludes by thinking generally about infrastructural agency and its mode of being in common with human and other beings. Infrastructure is assumed, but it also assumes. What do digital humanists assume in positioning their work as partly, but crucially, infrastructural?

    Best,

    Matt

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    Apologies — the talk is at 4pm, not 5pm!

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