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epistemological inquiry. It posits subjectivity and the inner standing point as the site of
intepretation. It replaces the mechanistic modes of Saussurean semiotics, with their
systems-based structures for value production with Peircean semiotics that includes a
third term (a sign represents something to someone for some purpose). It attends to the
moment of intervention as deterministic of a phenomenon within a field of potentiality. It
attempts to open the field of discourse to its infinite and peculiar richness as deformative
interpretation. Is it different from digital humanities? As night from day, text from work,
and the force of controlling reason from the pleasures of delightenment.
i See http://www.aclweb.org/ and its publications for work in computational linguistics.
ii For a few pioneers, see Blake, www.blakearchive.org/blake/main.html, Perseus,
www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html, Rossetti, www.rossettiarchive.net, Peter
Robinson, www.canterburytalesproject.org/CTPresources.htmlHoyt Duggan,
www.iath.virginia.edu/piers/ Women Writers Project and other work of the Scholarly
Technology Group at Brown, http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/julia.html.
iii Kathryn Sutherland, ed., Electronic Text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997),
iv For instance: William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn,
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995).
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