Distant Reading and Discourse Analysis

Distant Reading and Discourse Analysis

With the publication of this special issue, 'Le foucaldien' continues its experiment of updating the thought of Michel Foucault. Can historical discourse analyses be carried out with the aid of computers? In order to examine this question, we compare Franco Moretti's Distant Reading w...

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Main Authors: Maurice Erb, Simon Ganahl, Patrick Kilian
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2016-06-01
Series:Le foucaldien
Subjects:
algorithm
archaeology
big data
digital humanities
discourse analysis
distant reading
foucault
moretti
Online Access:https://foucaldien.net/articles/16
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spelling doaj-d2289a3631b94bc6b804b83ae30f299e2020-11-24T22:16:20ZdeuOpen Library of HumanitiesLe foucaldien2515-20762016-06-012110.16995/lefou.1616Distant Reading and Discourse AnalysisMaurice Erb0Simon Ganahl1Patrick Kilian2Universität ZürichUniversität ZürichUniversität ZürichWith the publication of this special issue, 'Le foucaldien' continues its experiment of updating the thought of Michel Foucault. Can historical discourse analyses be carried out with the aid of computers? In order to examine this question, we compare Franco Moretti's Distant Reading with Foucault's archaeological method. Despite their common origins in the French Annales School, the two approaches differ fundamentally. While Moretti interprets literary data by means of social history, Foucault seeks the immanent meaning of discourses. Our preliminary conclusion: digital archaeology appears to founder on the operationalization of the complex concept of the statement ('énoncé').https://foucaldien.net/articles/16algorithmarchaeologybig datadigital humanitiesdiscourse analysisdistant readingfoucaultmoretti
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algorithm
archaeology
big data
digital humanities
discourse analysis
distant reading
foucault
moretti
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Simon Ganahl
Patrick Kilian
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title_full Distant Reading and Discourse Analysis
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publishDate 2016-06-01
description With the publication of this special issue, 'Le foucaldien' continues its experiment of updating the thought of Michel Foucault. Can historical discourse analyses be carried out with the aid of computers? In order to examine this question, we compare Franco Moretti's Distant Reading with Foucault's archaeological method. Despite their common origins in the French Annales School, the two approaches differ fundamentally. While Moretti interprets literary data by means of social history, Foucault seeks the immanent meaning of discourses. Our preliminary conclusion: digital archaeology appears to founder on the operationalization of the complex concept of the statement ('énoncé').
topic algorithm
archaeology
big data
digital humanities
discourse analysis
distant reading
foucault
moretti
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