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Michael Newton commented on the post, Eco-Critical DH Discussion Ideas, on the site THATCamp Eco-Critical DH 2016

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:57:16 +0000

Digital Humanities projects by definition represent things, especially things that have materiality, and the humanities are largely the product of institutions established by industrialized empires and […]

Michael Newton commented on the post, Eco-Critical DH Discussion Ideas, on the site THATCamp Eco-Critical DH 2016

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:51:06 +0000

Social network graphs are enjoying popularity at present. Would it be possible to model at least some of the interdependencies of particular ecosystems in a network graph, making visible what some of these […]

Michael Newton commented on the post, Eco-Critical DH Discussion Ideas, on the site THATCamp Eco-Critical DH 2016

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:05:14 +0000

Another topic. It has been argued that environmental sustainability requires a much stronger, deeper and meaningful commitment to place/location than has been facilitated by the commodification of land as real […]

Michael Newton commented on the post, Eco-Critical DH Discussion Ideas, on the site THATCamp Eco-Critical DH 2016

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 01:00:04 +0000

Imagine, for example, that goods can not only be assigned “carbon units” (to represent their costs), but that you can visualize a map of the locations from which their components were harvested, a timeline of the […]

Michael Newton commented on the post, Eco-Critical DH Discussion Ideas, on the site THATCamp Eco-Critical DH 2016

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 21:52:10 +0000

Some more brainstorming ideas: People generally have no way of seeing or understanding the repercussions of their habits and consumptions on places and things beyond their individual and immediate space and […]