Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities

ATROPOS PRESS new york • dresden

General Editor: Wolfgang Schirmacher Editorial Board: Pierre Alferi Giorgio Agamben Hubertus von Amelunxen Alain Badiou Judith Balso Judith Butler Diane Davis Chris Fynsk Martin Hielscher Geert Lovink Larry Rickels Avital Ronell Michael Schmidt Victor Vitanza Siegfried Zielinski Slavoj Zizek

© 2016 by Matt Bernico & Manuela Kölke Think Media EGS Series is supported by The European Graduate School Book Design: Manuela Kölke Cover Design: 0ffsh0.re Cover Image: Anna Mikkola, videostill from “Dust Synthesis”, 2016 ATROPOS PRESS New York • Dresden 151 First Avenue # 14, New York, N.Y. 10003 all rights reserved ISBN 13 978-1-940813-08-0

Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities Edited by Matt Bernico & Manuela Kölke

Contents Introduction Matt Bernico & Manuela Kölke__________________________________9

I Reflections on Digital Culture 1 Transcending Time and Death: Immortality in a Simulated

World Ashley Ellis __________________________________________________25

2 User ; Name

Spencer Compton______________________________________________39

3 The Liberating Potential of Continuously Variable

Circuitry: Postmodern Analogs in Electronic Dance Music Culture Daymon Kiliman______________________________________________49

II Transforming Digital Research & Pedagogy 4 What We Think About Our Thinking: Digital Humanities

and Philosophy as a Way of Life John Brittingham______________________________________________79

5 The Poetics of Digital Scholarship

Frederick W. Gibbs____________________________________________101

6 Digital Humanities: Adaption and the Emergence of

Scholarly Methods Jonathan Heaps______________________________________________123

7 Wikipedia as a Pedagogic Platform: Construction and

Presentation of Digital Knowledge John Monroe_________________________________________________145

8 [Onto]Riffology: Explorations into Collaboration,

Assemblage and Learning Events Shannon Stevens & Richard Wainwright_________________________163

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III From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities 9 The Seven (Possibly) Deadly Sins of Making the

Humanities More Like Science Ellen Moll__________________________________________________187

10 The Human Belongs to the Inhuman: Meaning and

Uncertainty in the Digital Humanities Devin Higgins_______________________________________________213

11 Humanities without Humanity

Nicholas Houde ______________________________________________229

12 Thinking the Posthumanities

Matt Bernico________________________________________________241

13 Ontic Flows: On the Conditions of Posthuman Inquiry

Manuela Kölke_______________________________________________259

Contributors________________________________________________279 Index ______________________________________________________283

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Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities