Here, for ease of navigation, is a list of all posts on the blog. Most are by Michael Witmore, some are by Jonathan Hope, and there are a few guest posts.
They are listed here in reverse chronological order (most recent to oldest).
This is a blog, not a refereed journal, so the material here is mixed. Some posts are written with a public audience in mind; others are repositories of links and material; others are more like notes to ourselves. Posts record what we thought at the time of posting: let’s hope we know better now, eh? [JH]
Beth Ralston and Jonathan Hope (2015/07/09) – first release of spreadsheets with the VEP drama corpus metadata and Docuscope frequencies
Now Read This: A Thought Experiment
Michael Witmore (2015/04/05) Three ways of “getting at genre”: expert report, quantitative description of linguistic patterns, and biological response.
Mapping the ‘Whole’ of Early Modern Drama
Beth Ralston and Jonathan Hope (2015/03/26) Results of PCA experiments on Early Modern Drama corpus.
‘the size of it all carries us along’ – a new kind of literary history?
Jonathan Hope (2014/11/30) Materials to support Hope’s presentations at Helsinki Collegium Big Data Event 1-2 December 2014.
The Novel and Moral Philosophy 3: What Does Lennox Do with Moral Philosophy Words?
Julie Park (2014/10/26) Witmore’s interpretation of the differences between the two topical fields we are associating with the novel and moral philosophy.
The Novel and Moral Philosophy 2: Telling and Feeling, Aunts and Letters
Julie Park (2014/10/25) Discussion of the eighteenth-century novel and Lennox’s Euphemia in the context of Serendip analysis.
The Novel and Moral Philosophy 1: What does Charlotte Lennox have to do with Adam Smith?
Eric Alexander and Michael Witmore (2014/10/23) Introducing Serendip, our topic model software – and looking for the language of the novel.
Digital approaches to the language of Shakespearean tragedy
Jonathan Hope (2014/09/09) Materials to support our paper in the Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
Adjacencies, virtuous and vicious, and the forking paths of library research
Michael Witmore (2014/07/08) Browsing in open-stack libraries, PCA, subject classification, topic models
Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare
Jonathan Hope (2014/05/07) Links to Jonathan Hope et Michael Witmore, « Quantification and the language of later Shakespeare », Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 31 | 2014, 123-149 (see the publications page for a full list of publications)
Jonathan Hope (2014/05/06) Links to Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore, ‘Hamlet in five words’ on The Globe’s Globe to Globe Hamlet blog (see the publications page for a full list of publications)
Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities
Jonathan Hope (2014/05/01) Collection of links for those starting in DH
The Future of the Humanities will be Demand-Led
Michael Witmore (2014/03/31) “the driver of humanistic thinking will be people – all kinds of people – who are puzzled by the mysteries of being human and want to talk about them”.
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Jonathan Hope (2014/03/07) Notes and references for a series of presentations by Hope, April-July 2014. Library and information science; hyperdimensional geometry; pictures of kittens.
Jonathan Hope, Emma Pallant, Heather Froehlich (2014/03/05) Exchanges with Emma Pallant as she rehearses Much Ado
Jonathan Hope (2014/02/20) Publication details for Hope and Witmore, 2014, ‘The language of Macbeth’ in Ann Thompson (ed.), Macbeth: The State of Play (London: Arden) (see the publications page for a full list of publications)
Visualising English Print 1530-1800, Genre Contents of the Corpus
Michael Witmore (2013/12/12) Overview of genre in the VEP test corpus
Visualising English Print 1530-1800: The Corpus, Tag Sets, and Topics
Michael Witmore (2013/11/27) VEP test corpus: VARD
Michael Witmore (2013/07/20) A link to a post by Jesse Hurlbut about examining manuscript pages as image aggregates.
Michael Witmore (2013/07/20)
An Ecology of Critical Gestures: Point, Circle and Name
Michael Witmore (2013/02/17)
New Image from Original Post from Google Books
Michael Witmore (2013/02/01) An image showing changes in the catalogued subject of Library of Congress books over the course of several hundred years, supplied by John Orwant from Google.
Jonathan Hope (2013/01/29) How can we ‘count’ influence? Below the line contributions from Jockers and Underwood
Jonathan Hope (2012/08/17) Pronouns in Hamlet
What Do People read During a Revolution?
Michael Witmore, Robin Valenza (2012/07/11)
The Time Problem: Rigid Classifiers, Classifier Postmarks
Michael Witmore (2012/04/16)
Google Books: Ratio of Inked Space to Blank Space
Michael Witmore (2012/04/14)
Shakespeare’s mythic vocabulary – and his invisible grammar
Jonathan Hope (2012/02/14) Reports work on Shakespeare’s vocabulary by Hugh Craig, Elliott and Valenza
The very strange language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jonathan Hope (2012/02/06 ) Why is the language of MSND unlike that of other plays?
What did Stanley Fish count, and when did he start counting it?
Michael Witmore (2012/01/27)
Visualising linguistic variation with LATtice
Anupam Basu (2011/11/29) Download LATtice!
Tokens of impersonation in Dekker’s City Comedies
Mattie Burkert (2011/11/19)
Finding the Sherlock in Shakespeare: some ideas about prose genre and linguistic uniqueness
Victor Lenthe (2011/10/29)
Why the difference? Accounting for variation between Folio and Globe editions of Shakespeare’s plays
Jason Whitt (2011/10/21)
The comic ‘I’ and the tragic ‘we’?
Jonathan Hope (2011/10/21) Genre and pronouns
Jonathan Hope (2011/05/12) Can we use biological models in linguistic analysis?
Michael Witmore (2011/05/09)
Lost books, “Missing Matter”, and the Google 1-gram corpus
Michael Witmore (2011/01/03)
Text: a massively addressable object
Michael Witmore (2010/12/31)
Michael Witmore (2010/12/26)
Google n-grams and philosophy: use versus mention
Michael Witmore (2010/12/17)
Shakespeare Quarterly article goes live
Michael Witmore (2010/10/22) (see the publications page for a full list of publications)
Michael Witmore (2010/10/18)
Shakespeare Quarterly 61.3 Figures
Michael Witmore (2010/09/09) (see the publications page for a full list of publications)
Michael Witmore (2010/09/03)
Crowdsourced peer review in NY Times
Michael Witmore (2010/08/24)
Penalty kicks and distributed movement
Michael Witmore (2010/07/29)
Genre dependence on character ideolects?
Mike Stumpf (2010/07/29)
Presentation at London Forum for Authorship Studies/Digital Text and Scholarship seminar
Michael Witmore (2010/05/27)
Docuscope goes live on Shakespeare Quarterly open peer review
Michael Witmore (2010/03/14)
Early and late Plato II: The Apology and The Timaeus
Michael Witmore (2010/03/14)
Platonic dialogues and the ‘Two Socrates’
Michael Witmore (2010/02/03)
The funniest thing Shakespeare wrote? 767 pieces of the plays
Michael Witmore (2010/01/15)
Clustering the plays without Principal Components
Michael Witmore (2009/12/15)
Michael Witmore (2009/11/29)
Local versus diffused variation; the Hinman collator
Michael Witmore (2009/11/25)
Pre-digital iteration: the Lindstrand Comparator
Michael Witmore (2009/11/08)
Edward III, Shakespearean trigrams, and Trillin’s Derivatives
Michael Witmore (2009/10/14)
Rhythm quants: Burial, click tracks, genre tempo
Michael Witmore (2009/10/05)
Keeping the game in your head: David Ortiz
Michael Witmore (2009/09/29)
Michael Witmore (2009/09/21)
Texts as objects II: Object Oriented Philosophy. And Criticism?
Michael Witmore (2009/09/17)
Texts as objects I: Object Oriented Philosophy. And Criticism?
Michael Witmore (2009/09/11)
Michael Witmore (2009/09/09)
Comic Twelfth Night, Tragic Othello (part III)
Michael Witmore (2009/08/20)
The musical mood of the country
Michael Witmore (2009/08/06)
Comic Twelfth Night, Tragic Othello (part II)
Michael Witmore (2009/08/02)
Comic Twelfth Night, Tragic Othello (part I)
Michael Witmore (2009/07/31)
Love’s Labour’s Lost: the History
Michael Witmore (2009/07/20)
An untimely piece of Richard II
Michael Witmore (2009/07/08)
A genre map of Shakespeare’s plays from the First Folio (1623)
Michael Witmore (2009/07/07)
Spectralism, Maya Lin show at Corcoran
Michael Witmore (2009/07/03)
Michael Witmore (2009/07/02)
Michael Witmore (2009/06/22) Introduction to the nature of the winedarksea.
One Comment
Hi Michael,
I am a media studies grad at the New School and I came to the 2014 Project Directors Meeting a couple of weeks back and am thankful for your insights.
Right now I am in a Transforming Data course, which is teaching us about accessing data banks with Python for our research purposes. Concurrently with this course I am also in an Archives Studies course which is covering Derrida and Michel Foucault, and that’s when I ran into this quote from his Archaeology of Knwledge and The Discourse on Language.
“But the archive is also that which determines that all these things said do not accumulate endlessly in an amorphous mass, nor are they inscribed in an unbroken linearity, nor do they disappear at the mercy of chance external accidents; but they are grouped together in distinct figures, composed together in accordance with multiple relations, maintained or blurred in accordance with specific regularities, that which determines that they do not withdraw at the same pace in time, but shine, as it were, like stars, some that seem close to us shining brightly from afar off, while others that are in fact close to use are already growing pale.”
It was in front of mind. Thought you may find it interesting/useful as it relates to your comments regarding proximity of “things in the library.”
I also want to let you know that your comment regarding learning tech and math resonated with me and I now accept that as a good necessity rather than a burden.
Thanks again,
Nima
The New School, Media Studies Department M.A.