CUNY Academic Commons | Tom Lewek | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/tlewek/activity/ Activity feed for Tom Lewek. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 ffe24c30d7980de8984db929e68a99d5 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2946 Sat, 13 May 2017 16:23:43 -0400 Currently, I’m focused on preparing everything for our presentation on Wednesday. This past week, I built out a Google Slides template that incorporates our visual identity—it uses our color scheme, typ […]

]]> 1cbd00b93903206f70c4e4e0740c35a4 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2939 Sat, 13 May 2017 02:09:09 -0400 Welp, next Wednesday is it. We’re getting excited to present our work to a larger audience, but we still have some last-minute items to address.
Presentation. This week’s in-class rehearsal went slightly bet […]

]]> 6141da108fe9a43198af21ff68e27665 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2923 Mon, 08 May 2017 03:59:02 -0400 With just over one week until our presentation, we’ve had to prioritize our work and trim our wishlist to have the best possible product. See below for a rundown of where everything stands.
Development. We f […]

]]> bad1bc0c2a94243b7126990676661e11 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2880 Mon, 01 May 2017 00:16:25 -0400 Approaching 17 May, we remain in a relatively good position, though we have a fair amount of work to complete in disparate areas. See below for more details on each of these.
Presentation. While we’ll use W […]

]]> 4b15a346c283734b8747f8b6fede8689 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Pulling It Together, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/03/01/pulling-it-together/#comment-1044 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:11:50 -0500 Thanks, Lisa. In addition to class time, we’re also planning to hold weekly check-in meetings. I plan to send weekly digest emails too (I’ve used these at the work—basically they break down what we’ve done this w […]

]]> 380e0285d600e4a794b887d257cb0329 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2107 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:30:14 -0500 My revised proposal is now available on GitHub.
During revision, it became clear that practicing digital humanities both requires iteration and underscores how more traditional humanistic practices (e.g. […]

]]> 8482d2049a5f55ea8bdbd18d9054fdac Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1982 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:11:20 -0500 Please see the following link for my project proposal: https://github.com/tlewek/dh-praxis-16/blob/master/dh-praxis-proposal.md. Jojo has already, and graciously, provided some feedback (specifically, recommending […]

]]> f8144f3817e41e2f1f3a25c07d13ac88 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1594 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:55:53 -0500 During our last class together, students spoke of their grant proposals, extensions of their data projects, and the digital archives or editions they planned to build. My final project, however, takes a more […]

]]> 4a3a2f2e8ef52f3a2ac38c298dff24e4 Tom Lewek commented on the post, code, data, around dh in 80 days, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/29/code-data-around-dh-in-80-days/#comment-356 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:52:54 -0500 I love the connection between flesh and data, Achim. Unfortunately, I don’t know Latour very well. Are you using him to say that we reify data, or that data have materiality and we erase it? Maybe something else […]

]]> 426a9765ac8468e26ce67e81838ff327 Tom Lewek commented on the post, "What graduate students want...is simply answered at the present time: they want a job.", on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/27/what-graduate-students-want-is-simply-answered-at-the-present-time-they-want-a-job/#comment-355 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 03:45:14 -0500 Interesting take, Claire. I definitely agree that we need to move away from “the vapid embrace of the digital”—the “digital” alone won’t change the infrastructures of the academy or the place of the humanities w […]

]]> 24ad62de307683d0292170ddb4adf17c Tom Lewek commented on the post, Workshop on Digital Project Planning, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 https://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/22/workshop-on-digital-project-planning/#comment-290 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:30:43 -0500 Good summary of the workshop, Claire. Like you, I left with more questions than answers, but those questions pushed me to reconsider, refine, and strengthen some of the many vague ideas I had.

]]> e288e5c9d4ac11cf6fc8a216ab0f1a49 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Data Project: The Fragments of Virginia Woolf’s <em>Between the Acts</em>, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/08/data-project-the-fragments-of-virginia-woolfs-between-the-acts/#comment-288 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:20:48 -0500 Thanks for commenting, Lisa! I’ve heard about Tanya Clement before, and this looks a great place to start building out my project a bit more.

]]> 98a529ce8f9b4faa6472dfff62bd3644 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Data Project: Virginia is for Movers, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/data-project-virginia-is-for-movers/#comment-133 Tue, 08 Nov 2016 03:51:12 -0500 No problem! I love markdown as an easy-to-use markup language, but the hash sign can throw off users at first.

]]> d975359562ad7b9a1276b4a0953bc280 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Data Project: Virginia is for Movers, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/data-project-virginia-is-for-movers/#comment-129 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 22:14:40 -0500 Quick GitHub suggestion: in README.md, don’t start each paragraph with the pound/hash sign (#). GitHub, and markdown, use # as the equivalent of in HTML. To render text as a paragraph, just insert a line break […]

]]> bd53dd13824a39d1ba9dd49687dc7ea6 Tom Lewek wrote a new post on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=902 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 02:56:26 -0400 “The Internet hates walled gardens,” Kathleen Fitzpatrick writes in the “Texts” chapter of Planned Obsolescence, and this reality highlights some of the failures of digital publishing to acknowledge and facilit […]

]]> 203d9e7587d04c7cd0c55b47781a3e66 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Joshua Miele: “Accessibility from First Principles”, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/23/joshua-miele-accessibility-from-first-principles/#comment-60 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:30:05 -0400 It was a great lecture (and our seminar was pretty well represented there).

I too am guilty of not giving enough attention to “accessibility from first principles” and focusing on compliance (alt text, […]

]]> 2823da545f173e8d4bf04515c01bc5ef Tom Lewek commented on the post, Digital History and Digital Journalism, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar 2016-2017 http://dhpraxisfall16.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/26/digital-history-and-digital-journalism/#comment-24 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:47:45 -0400 Interesting. I do think there’s a real divide between historians and journalists (and academics and journalists in general). In The Awl recently, a two-part conversation between an academic, Jo Livingstone, and an […]

]]> 781c2535286dc79a794238f7255dd96e Tom Lewek's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/441725/ Tue, 13 Sep 2016 02:15:17 -0400 42faf56d2b779f6a10d467a97702b9c5 Tom Lewek's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/441460/ Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:17:47 -0400 72ee0c6969f69217fb806068bcc28fa9 Tom Lewek's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/440254/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:13:47 -0400 dc986c44ed4dc8d7411a036764e8e186 Tom Lewek's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433990/ Mon, 16 May 2016 03:45:38 -0400 4157c8e44adfa72aad36f5f8a1420f88 Tom Lewek changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433989/ Mon, 16 May 2016 03:44:36 -0400 68c40dd53fe428a259f4fbc18c0e2091 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 11 - Art and Art History, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/04/09/week-11-art-and-art-history/#comment-232 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 15:32:08 -0400 Martha Rosler’s Gar(b)arge Sale Standard adopts the disposable format of the daily newspaper to approach questions of waste from multiple editorial and design perspectives. For example, in Dayna Tortorici’s “ […]

]]> e5907d29f13914f87af2802c24514e0d Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 10 -- Ecology, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/25/week-10-ecology/#comment-187 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 01:28:04 -0400 In “Queer Ecology,” Timothy Morton argues that environmentalism should not aim to elevate nature but situate the human in the field of the nonhuman. In fact, he reinterprets ecology, so that it possesses […]

]]> 03e0be73cacd2e322a394b1468d87242 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 8 -- waste and stigma: race, gender, sex, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/23/week-8-waste-and-stigma-race-gender-sex/#comment-130 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:08:43 -0400 Prompt 3

Sedgwick and Moon’s link between waste and fat seems interesting, if not completely coherent, in the way that both author combine various strands of evidence to convey this point. For example, M […]

]]> 86148c66bd8c76ea281e4050cfeb5a77 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 7 -- journalism and ethnography, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/15/week-7-journalism-and-ethnography/#comment-106 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:59:52 -0400 ## Prompt 3

For Nagle, the invisibility of sanitation workers offends on both theoretical and visceral levels. Drawing on the work of sociologist Wayne Brekhus, she presents sanitation work as “an ‘unmarked’ […]

]]> 36d587d88535e148a04e56b6bdbf5a84 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 6 blog prompt and note on readings, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/06/week-6-blog-prompt-and-note-on-readings/#comment-79 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:58:08 -0500 Blog prompt 3: questions for Aimee VonBokel

1. You write that JR’s installation at Ellis Island and Bradford Young’s at PS 83 in Brooklyn not only “trade on a fascination with structural decay” but also […]

]]> 8b2b4ca404527f88d302c84b9859f476 Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 5 -- economies of waste and recycling, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/02/week-5-economies-of-waste-and-recycling/#comment-59 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:04:56 -0500 1. In his discussions with Michigan landfill workers, Reno detects an ambivalence about the occupation and its social standing: “It is as if [they] exchange substance with the material with which they work and […]

]]> 0371507c91756a6a062fbae65cbc433d Tom Lewek commented on the post, Week 4 blog prompt -- Transatlantic Modernism, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/22/week-4-blog-prompt-transatlantic-modernism/#comment-38 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:03:12 -0500 Successful poetic composition, for Williams, adheres to efficient processes. While it begins with the “imaginative man” turning to art for “release,” such a turn is not sufficient. In fact, this man, to realize […]

]]> 49fd6504f8e5cb7c12e6a7dab83a367a Tom Lewek commented on the post, Blog response for week 3 (Feb. 18) -- Douglas, Kristeva, Freud, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-3-feb-18-douglas-kristeva-freud/#comment-20 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:33:43 -0500 Reno captures much of Douglas’s argument accurately but glosses over a significant distinction in Purity and Danger. First, however, what he gets right: objects are deemed waste not through “inherent qua […]

]]> c9adcb8f1e8dca83d1c569760b59735f Tom Lewek commented on the post, Blog response for week 2 (Feb. 11) -- general introductions to waste, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-2-feb-11-general-introductions-to-waste/#comment-11 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:26:25 -0500 Yaeger’s explanation of the contemporary preoccupation with trash in this quotations implies not only that detritus has become omnipresent, as nature once seemed, but also that it inspires culture, as nature o […]

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