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Hidden in Plain-TeX: Investigating Minimal Computing Workflows
  • Nabeel Siddiqui
  • project management
  • markup
  • tools
  • minimal computing
  • philosophy
  • history
  • publishing

    Drawing on software studies, data feminism, digital rhetoric studies, information science, and the history of computing, this paper foregrounds Markdown as a cultural object to analyze the social, cultural, and political pressures surrounding the digital humanities.  Rather than beginning with contemporary discourse, it draws parallels between Markdown and Donald Knuth's TeX.

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