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Month September 2005

UVA Digital Tools Summit Keynote: Brian Cantwell Smith

Topic at hand is less digital tools than digital epistemologies
“Digital” – candidate for trendiest word (1.5 million books use it in their title), but very ill-understood.
Revisionist history of epistemology:
* Descartes’ turn from the “messy stuff” of the *processes* of understanding the world to the mechanistic explanations of it
* Late 19th-century: people started to think that [...]

Um…

…yeah. So, not much to say at the moment. Heaps of coding, swamped with both Center work and outside projects. Oh, and I’m getting married in a week and a half. Hence, not so much with the blogging, even though I’d planned to make a spectacular re-entrance after a summer off[1].
Sigh.
Well, on the brighter side, [...]

I’m back

Been on a bit of a blog sabbatical for the past few months. All’s well; just didn’t have much of substance to say, so I figured I’d take a break and build up some motive energy (well, not entirely true, but close enough). I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the peculiar transition between grad [...]