This talk engages with recent debates around decolonization within postcolonial studies, focusing in particular on questions of pedagogy, curriculum, and political education within the university and beyond. Drawing on work done with the Revolutionary Papers project, I show how the digital humanities can offer pathways to construct non-canonical and collaborative comparativist methodologies for scholarship on decolonization and anticolonialism.
DH Events at Price Lab
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Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Textpocalypse Now:
Matthew Kirschenbaum
This talk will consider the status of writing in the present moment not from the qualitative question of whether AI can write better than humans, but from the stance of political economy--meaning the role of writing in what Michel de Certeau once called the "scriptural economy," as well as online industries' insatiable demand for "content" and the increasing awareness (some call this the Dead Internet) that more and more of what we read online is merely eavesdropping on conversations amongst machines.
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Price Lab for Digital Humanities
Book Talk: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI
Author of Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI (NYU Press, March 2026) Sarah Murray reveals an alternative feminist pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI by showing how smartness was a techno-cultural ideal long before the digital age. Professor Murray will be in conversation with Professor Rahul Mukherjee (Dick Wolf Associate Professor of TV and New Media, University of Pennsylvania).
Price Lab for Digital Humanities
LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure
In this presentation, Director Jessica Marie Johnson and Assistant Director Nadejda Jahi Webb discuss the LifexCode ecosystem, key praxis, and several projects therein.