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The Politics of Tools
  • Stephen Ramsay
  • cultural criticism
  • code studies
  • philosophy
  • tools
  • politics
  • software
  • cultural studies

If it is true that our tool-building cannot define or predict the specific political arrangements that may later arise, we should perhaps be most circumspect not when we are tempted to imagine our efforts to be neutral, but rather when we imagine our tools to be acts of resistance or outright political activism.

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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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    Ler a prosa do mundo hoje
    • Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa
    • materialisms
    • reading
    • digital
    • dh
    • philosophy
    • media studies

      Material conditions of digital text diffusion and their impact on new forms of reading.

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