post-hermeneutical reading group

http://www.princeton.edu/ihum/reading-groups/posthermeneutics/

Spring 2012

What is Post-Hermeneutics?

Meeting 1. Friday, March 16, 2:30 pm, NYU

David Wellbery, “Foreword” in: Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks, 1800-1900, trans. Michael Metteer and Chris Cullens (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1989), pp. vii-xxxiii. 

Friedrich Kittler, “Media and Drugs in Pynchon’s Second World War” [1987] in: Literature, Media, Information Systems, ed. John Johnston (Amsterdam: GB Arts International, 1997), pp. 101-16.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, “A Farewell to Interpretation” in: Materialities of Communication, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer  (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994), pp. 389-402.

Alex Galloway, “Are Some Things Unrepresentable?” in: Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 28 no. 7-8 (December 2011), pp. 85-102.

Technical Knowledge and the Non-Phenomenal

Meeting 2. Friday, April 20, 2:30 pm, NYU

Vilém Flusser, from: Into the Universe of Technical Images [1985], trans. Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).  

Philip E. Agre, “Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy” in: The Information Society 10, no. 2 (April 1994), pp. 101-127.

Carolyn Lee Kane, “Infrared, Or, the Algorithmic Production of Visual Knowledge” (unpublished paper, 2011).

Kate Brideau, “The Techno-image as Epistemological Model” (unpublished paper, 2011).

Post-Hermeneutical Literary Study

Meeting 3 Friday, May 11, 2:30 pm, NYU

Stephen Ramsay, "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism" in: Literary and Linguistic Computing 18, no. 2 (2003), pp. 167 - 174.  

D. Sculley and B.M. Pasanek, “Meaning and Mining: the Impact of Implicit Assumptions in Data Mining for the Humanities” in: Literary and Linguistic Computing 23, no. 4 (2008), pp. 409-424. 

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Extreme Inscription: A Grammatology of the Hard Drive" in: Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination" (Cambridge: MIT UP, 2008), pp. 73 - 109.