Resistant Networks
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Univ. of St. Andrews
Organizer Name
Bettina Bildhauer
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of St. Andrews
Presider Name
Björn Klaus Buschbeck
Presider Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 1
Thinking with Networks: Political and Cultural Agency in Literature of the Welsh Marches
Presenter 1 Name
Matthew Lampitt
Presenter 1 Affiliation
King’s College London
Paper Title 2
Net Narratives
Presenter 2 Name
Bettina Bildhauer
Paper Title 3
The Internet of Manuscripts
Presenter 3 Name
Andrew Prescott
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Start Date
11-5-2018 10:00 AM
Session Location
Sangren 1710
Description
Network studies are taking the humanities, including medieval studies, by storm – everything from the brain to a plant, from language evolution to subject-object-relations is rethought in terms of the network metaphor. This session aims to dig deeper into the resistant materiality behind these network metaphors, into the more agential role they afford to things and texts, and into their links to the internet as the paradigmatic network. Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow, in ‘The Internet of Manuscripts’ shows how new electronic technologies enable us to wire up and network actual manuscripts in a library or museum space, using for example RFID chips or artcodes to record the history and relationships of manuscripts, so that manuscripts become a digital network in their own right. Matthew Lampitt, PhD student in French at King’s College London, in his paper ‘Thinking with Networks: Political and Cultural Agency in Literature of the Welsh Marches’ investigates how thinking with networks enables scholars to restore political and cultural agency and resistance to texts and regions traditionally considered peripheral, in this case the Welsh Marches. Bettina Bildhauer (SAIMS, organiser) in ‘Net narratives’ analyses the medieval prehistory of the contemporary craze for the network metaphor: the net metaphor. The frequent association of nets with invisibility, material resistance and danger might persist in contemporary anxieties about the internet. (SIGNED) Bettina Bildhauer
Resistant Networks
Sangren 1710
Network studies are taking the humanities, including medieval studies, by storm – everything from the brain to a plant, from language evolution to subject-object-relations is rethought in terms of the network metaphor. This session aims to dig deeper into the resistant materiality behind these network metaphors, into the more agential role they afford to things and texts, and into their links to the internet as the paradigmatic network. Andrew Prescott, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow, in ‘The Internet of Manuscripts’ shows how new electronic technologies enable us to wire up and network actual manuscripts in a library or museum space, using for example RFID chips or artcodes to record the history and relationships of manuscripts, so that manuscripts become a digital network in their own right. Matthew Lampitt, PhD student in French at King’s College London, in his paper ‘Thinking with Networks: Political and Cultural Agency in Literature of the Welsh Marches’ investigates how thinking with networks enables scholars to restore political and cultural agency and resistance to texts and regions traditionally considered peripheral, in this case the Welsh Marches. Bettina Bildhauer (SAIMS, organiser) in ‘Net narratives’ analyses the medieval prehistory of the contemporary craze for the network metaphor: the net metaphor. The frequent association of nets with invisibility, material resistance and danger might persist in contemporary anxieties about the internet. (SIGNED) Bettina Bildhauer