From Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence[1]: Weaker talents idealize; figures of capable imagination appropriate for themselves. But nothing is got for nothing, and self-appropriation involves the immense anxieties of indebtedness, for what strong maker desires the realization that [she] has failed to create [herself]? From Shared Experience’s Mary Shelley: She goes to stand before the portrait, and stares…
Author: aroach
On the Complexities of Digitization (NYU Event)
On 17 November 2015 I attended “Digitization: What is Lost and What is Found?” at New York University. The event was a conference style panel moderated by Marion Thain (Associate Director of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science) and featuring Sebastian Heath (Clinical Assistant Professor of Ancient Studies, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World), W. Gerald Heverly…