Whitney Trettien
Penn professor & faculty director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities. Author, CUT/COPY/PASTE (2021). Weird old books & technologies, thinking about data, craftwork, feminist media histories. Creative/critical. Libraries are dope. Still a punk.
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- I know there's a lot going on in the world right now, but I recently read Charles Babbage's On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture (1832) for the first time, and it blew my f'ing mind. So much to think with. Especially for book historians.
- Temple is hosting another Electronics Faire, on REPAIR. Submit art, performance, workshops: sites.temple.edu/efaire/repair/ "We invite submissions that focus on the technical aspects of repairing electronic media & objects and/or radically imagine ... community, collective, & interpersonal repair."
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- I shared Ted Chiang's "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" with students for an extra credit opportunity. Not one of them found it odd that a photocopier would alter the image it has been tasked with reproducing. ?!
- It's as if gen AI is subtly shifting expectations around what it means to "copy" something. It used to be tough, finger-waggy work arguing a facsimile is not the same as the original. Now it's just like eh, we're all post-facsimile, what even is a "copy" when reproducing = mashed-up regeneration.
- Reposted by Whitney TrettienHave you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!
- Reposted by Whitney TrettienReading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment. We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out! It’s a mess and a disgrace. Lift it up!!
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- Reposted by Whitney TrettienJOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
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- I was lucky to have Milan Terlunen join my Intro to Digital Humanities class today to discuss his work with Sierra Eckert tracking which parts of Middlemarch get most quoted, and why. Read their article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
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- I’m just never going to sign on to an idea for fixing [insert here: higher ed, your field, classroom, university, library] that adds more labor. *Reduce* labor. Supplant labor. Waste it. What would happen if you had more time to [insert here: think, read, stare, cook, sleep, muse, exercise]?
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- Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
- She apparently also typed out and illustrated with her typewriter a few copies of Don Quixote in the 1930s? Now at the Biblioteca de Catalunya and Universidad de Montevideo.
- A better image. Typewritten, but looks like needlework.
- The four-year-old is having an absolute meltdown about going to bed. “I HATE how the earth SPINS!! EVERY DAY it’s night to day night to day night to day ALWAYS WITH THE NIGHT TO DAY! when will it EVER END!!!”
- JD gives this talk to my class every semester and it's still the best explanation of generative AI I've seen. Better educating students and colleagues on how the tech actually works feels like a small win these days.
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- Reposted by Whitney TrettienJob Announcement: Head of Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization at Pennsylvania State University digital-scholarship....
- Reposted by Whitney TrettienReally pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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- Reposted by Whitney TrettienDo you work at a small U.S. liberal arts college or at a university with 5,000 or fewer undergrads? If so, check out Rare Book School’s 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀! Application deadline: 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 rarebookschool.org
- A spooky listen, full of higher ed ghosts ‘n’ ghouls.. but also rich with fresh ideas & possibility for the humanities. Thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for having me on & @cnewf.bsky.social for his vision!
- My "Intro to DH" students are working through the various ways to model a book digitally. One student tried using GPT to HTR a manuscript from 1750. They discovered that many words in the output text were silently replaced with synonyms -- like "kid" for "child."
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- I would be willing to put a lot of money on the fact that “AI” didn’t do this at all. Human error. Because microworkers do much of this “automated detection.”
- Reposted by Whitney TrettienExcited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered." culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
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- Reposted by Whitney TrettienThe UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
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