Artifacts of the Encounter and the Digital Humanities

Abstract

What makes the digital humanities a dynamic field of research? What makes the digital humanities at all? This “blessay”—a cross between an essay and blog post—works to answer these questions by wading into Johanna Drucker’s statement “reception history is production history,” as presented at Princeton University Library’s conference “Remediating the Avant-Garde: Magazines & Digital Archives” in October 2013. The author looks to her own life, the poet George Oppen, and Drucker’s poetic contemporary Lyn Hejinian for foundation in such dynamism.

KEYWORDS:

• digital humanities
• representation
• theory
• poetics