In the digital humanities community, most projects are replete with collaborators, and resources are continually shared, reused, and remixed; yet even in such a context, data-mining methodologies stand out as being particularly dependent on collaboration.

As rhetoric or practical criticism: “the examination of diction and syntax, rhythm and repetition, and the various figures of speech” (6) As philosophy or the “potential expression of truth and knowledge” (7)2 As art or a unique aesthetic construct—a form of discourse inherently other, of which the objective is the “pleasure of representation” and the “pleasure of recognition,” or the pleasure “of taking in impersonations, fictions, and language creations of others and recognizing their justice” (17) As “cultural production”—“for its political role, its exposure of the state of a given society” (9)

“to explore both the nature of Stein’s art and certain wider questions about linguistic and literary meaning

“[P]eople and machines are both embodied, and the specifica-tions of their embodiments can best be under-stood in the recursive dynamics whereby they coevolve with one another”

In Second Life and in almost all massively multiplayer online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, fungible goods and ser-vices and currency (in Second Life, “Lindens”) can be purchased with dollars on eBay and can be exchanged across the border of the vir-tual world and the real world (Castronova)

n any session, you may have to consult maps and signs to know which building is the one you are looking for

Even the Wikipedia entry on The Sims also (as of this writing) notes that “It has been described as more like a toy than a game” (Wikipedia)

But others would say that, while The Sims may have sold well, it is not a game. Rather, they say, The Sims is a “toy” or “simulation.”

The notion that we could have gotten similarly clubby, trying to exclude someone else’s work in new media, now seems repulsive

the other is designed to employ the contents of net-work RSS feeds and web page

After this, nothing more could be said; though, indeed, Captain Delano could hardly avoid some little tinge of irritation upon being left ungratified in so inconsiderable a wish, by one, too, for whom he intended such solid services

superstition

Marking the noisy indocility of the blacks in general, as well as what seemed the sullen inefficiency of the whites it was not without humane satisfaction that Captain Delano witnessed the steady good conduct of Babo.

We most conveniently use paper and rejoice in the prin-ters; this way of writing is so easy that leisure is not more pleasant thanwork.”

This the negroes have since said; * * * that one of the ship-boys feeling, from Captain [pg 262] Amasa Delano's presence, some hopes of release, and not having enough prudence, dropped some chance-word respecting his expectations, which being overheard and understood by a slave-boy with whom he was eating at the time, the latter struck him on the head with a knife, inflicting a bad wound, but of which the boy is now healing; that likewise, not long before the ship was brought to anchor, one of the seamen, steering at the time, endangered himself by letting the blacks remark some expression in his countenance

Captain Delano took to negroes, not philanthropically, but genially, just as other men to Newfoundland dogs

The whites, too, by nature, were the shrewder race. A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden? Not unlikely, perhaps. But if the whites had dark secrets concerning Don Benito, could then Don Benito be any way in complicity with the blacks? But they were too stupid

"You generalize, Don Benito; and mournfully enough. But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright sun has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.

There is some one above.

By contrast, the open architecture of the World-Wide Web, which posits “a global distributed medium in which anyone can be a publisher, and a hypertext document structure in which it is trivial to jump from a newspaper article to an academic essay to an encyclopedia entry in a matter of seconds,” makes for a far more open system of annotation and discovery.[4]

Annotation is of course far older than the web. For as long as there has been writing, there have been readers who follow along and “write back.”

socially computed reading may even experimentally deform literature to discover new truths about the significance of literature.