Occupying the Digital Humanities

College English Mar 2013

Jeff Rice

Abstract

This essay questions the digital humanities’ dependence on interpretation and critique as strategies for reading and responding to texts. Instead, the essay proposes suggestion as a digital rhetorical practice, one that does not replace hermeneutics, but instead offers alternative ways to respond to texts. The essay uses the Occupy movement as an example and, in particular, focuses on the circulated image of a police officer pepper spraying protesters at one event in order to show how suggestion functions within a network of moments and associations.

Journal: College English
Published: 2013-03-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201322953
Open Access: Closed
Topics: digital rhetoric multimodality

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