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Projects
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Jacquard loom woven book
Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians
redefining manuscript miscellanies
global printing
Frost Fair printing
Penal Press
Media Structures
Digital Book History
African/Black figures in books
Decolonial Book History
John Bagford
Humfrey Wanley
Edward Benlowes
Francis Quarles
Humphrey Moseley
Echoes of the Little Gidding Harmonies
thresholds
Feminist Book History
Areopagitica Archaeology
Becoming Plant: Nehemiah Grew & the "Media" of 17th-century Microscopy
Anatomical Flapbooks
Little Gidding
Isabella Whitney
Text/iles
Books of Scraps
Bibliographic Imaginaries
Digital Editing
Zine
Title pages
Radical Publishing
Total Archive
Facsimiles
Reprographics
Digital Textual Weirdness
Notes
Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
Memoirs
History of Computing
Philology
Avant-Garde
- Fluxus Digital Archive: http://thestudio.uiowa.edu/fluxus/
- Niebisch, Arndt. Media Parasites in the Early Avant-Garde: On the Abuse of Technology and Communication.
On History
- Ferguson, Niall, ed. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
- Nagel, Alexander and Christoper S. Wood. Anachronic Renaissance. New York: Zone Books, 2010. -- anachronism
Historiography & Antiquarianism
Archives
Book Arts
Shakespeare
Race / Early Modern
Sexuality / Early Modern
Gender / Early Modern
Early Modern
Bibliography
Editing and Textual Criticism
- Pierazzo, Elena. Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods. Burlington: Ashgate, 2015.
Substrates (Paper, Parchment, Papyrus, Bamboo slips)
Book History
History of Reading / Compiling / Arranging
Libraries / Library Tech / Documentalism
Prints
Material Culture / Textiles
Sound
Digital Humanities
- Schreibman, Susan and Ray Siemans. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Social Network Analysis
History of Computing
Performance Studies
Science and Technology Studies
Infrastructure Studies
Media / Digital Book Studies
Feminist Technology Studies
Software Studies
Distant Reading / Macroanalysis
- Debate between Franco Moretti and Katie Trumpener in Critical Inquiry 36.1 (2009): http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/issue/autumn_2009_v36_n1/
Critical Algorithm Studies / Surveillance Studies
- Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Critical Code Studies
History of Literary Criticism
Marginalia, Used Books, Readers' Marks, Manuscript
Orality, Literacy
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Censorship
History / Philosophy of Science
Philosophy
British Literature 1509-1688
Literature
Interesting / Collected
- Blair, Ann. The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science.
- Boyle, James. Shaman, Software and Spleens.
- Brooke, Collin Gifford. Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. (Hampton Press, 2009)
- Social Life of Documents.
- Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923.
- Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.
- Software Studies, edited by Matthew Fuller
- Hannam, James. God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science.
- Jackson, Holbrook. The Anatomy of Bibliomania.
- Jager, Eric. The Book of the Heart.
- Jardine, Lisa. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke.
- Lovink, Geert. Dark Fiber.
- The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation.
- Osler, Margaret J. Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe.
- Phillippy, Patricia. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture.
- Pettegree, Andrew. The Book in the Renaissance.
- Prefiguring Cyberculture.
- Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories.
- Urban, Greg. Metaculture.
- Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics.
Courses / Working Groups
Programming for Humanitists workshop: http://programming4humanists.tamu.edu/?page_id=19