During our first meeting, we did not get to discuss the additional readings from Mark Sample and Tom Scheinfeldt fully. Perhaps we can use our blog to do so?

So much emerging talk of digital humanities scholarship is focused on the line between the humanities and the sciences/math through “big data,” data-mining, and macro-scale analysis of corpora or large bodies of text or information. But these articles bring us to that other, often fraught boundary: the one between the humanities and the arts.

What do you think of Sample’s call for a “deformed humanities,” with all the possibilities it opens up and the problems it raises? What do you think of Scheinfeldt’s interest in a “performance humanities” pursued through digital technology?

• Mark Sample, “Notes Toward a Deformed Humanities,”http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/02/notes-towards-a-deformed-humanities/, 2 May 2012; ”Scholarly Lies and the Deformed Humanities,” http://www.samplereality.com/2012/05/17/scholarly-lies-and-the-deformative-humanities/, Sample Reality Blog, 17 May 2012.

• Tom Scheinfeldt, “Game Change: Digital Technology and Performative Humanities,” 15 February 2012, Found History Blog, http://www.foundhistory.org/2012/02/15/game-change-digital-technology-and-performative-humanities/.