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    [1]    From: Willard McCarty 
           Subject: new book: Les humanités numériques: Une histoire critique (50)

    [2]    From: Maarten Bullynck 
           Subject: Book on programming systems (55)


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        Date: 2019-01-28 12:41:22+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: new book: Les humanités numériques: Une histoire critique

Les humanités numériques: Une histoire critique
Pierre Mounier
Paris: OpenEdition Books, 2018
(https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/12006)

Quel avenir faut-il prédire aux humanités ? Les signes d'une
désaffection pour la culture humaniste se sont multipliés au cours des
dernières années en France et ailleurs. Dans ce contexte morose et
déprimé, le développement des humanités numériques apparaît à certains
comme une planche de salut pour des disciplines autrement condamnées à
disparaître. Toutefois, réinventer les humanités par le numérique
suppose de relever trois défis de taille : leur rapport à la technique,
leur relation au politique et enfin à la science elle-même. Les
humanités numériques sont très critiquées : pour certains elles relèvent
de la poudre aux yeux, pour d'autres, elles constituent une menace
extraordinaire. Mais s'il y a bien quelque chose que l'on ne peut
contester, c'est leur capacité à poser de bonnes questions aux
différentes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. Penser la
place que les humanités doivent tenir dans notre monde implique d'en
redéfinir le contrat social et épistémique. Elles sont riches
d'opportunités de ce point de vue : à condition de ne pas dénaturer la
spécificité humanistique des pratiques de recherche auxquelles elles
s'appliquent.

[What future should be predicted for the humanities? The signs of a
disaffection for humanist culture have multiplied in recent years in
France and elsewhere. In this gloomy and depressed context, the
development of the digital humanities appears to some as a lifeline for
disciplines otherwise doomed to disappear. However, reinventing the
humanities through digital means takes up three major challenges: their
relationship to technology, their relationship to politics and finally
to science itself. The digital humanities are much criticized: for some
they are the powder in the eyes, for others, they pose an extraordinary
threat. But if there is one thing that can not be disputed, it is their
ability to pose good questions to the different disciplines of the human
and social sciences. To think of the place that the humanities must hold
in our world implies redefining the social and epistemic contract. The
digital humanities are rich in opportunities from this point of view --
provided they do not distort the humanistic specificity of the research
practices to which they apply.]


--
Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London;
Adjunct Professor, Western Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary
Science Reviews (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist
(www.dhhumanist.org)



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        Date: 2019-01-28 12:32:25+00:00
        From: Maarten Bullynck 
        Subject: Book on programming systems

 > From: 

Dear All,

I have the pleasure to announce the publication of a volume on the
history and philosophy of programming systems, edited by Liesbeth De Mol
and Giuseppe Primiero.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319972251

The volume collects contributions to the third HaPoP symposium in Paris
(http://hapoc.org/events/hapop3/schedule). Freely accessible drafts of
the introduction and of the chapter I authored can be found on HAL (see
links in the table of contents.)

Table of contents
-----------------

Liesbeth De Mol and Giuseppe Primiero: Programming Systems: in Search of
Historical and Philosophical Foundations, p. 1-12 (see also:
https://hal.univ-lille3.fr/hal-01674676)

Rabia Arif et al.: Validity and Correctness Before the OS: the Case of
LEO I and LEO II, p. 15-47

Maarten Bullynck: What Is an Operating System? A Historical
Investigation (1954–1964), p. 49-79
(see https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01541602)

Troy K. Astarte et al.: Formal Semantics of ALGOL 60: Four Descriptions
in their Historical Context, p. 83-152

Julian Rohrhuber: Sans-Papiers as First-Class Citizens, p. 153-185

Stephen Kell: Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk, p. 189-213

Warren Toomey: Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch, p.
215-231

Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu et al.: Ethical Operating Systems, p. 235-260

Gaël Duval: From Sovereign Operating Systems to the Sovereign Digital
Chain, p. 261-271

Robin K. Hill: Elegance in Software, p. 273-286


best wishes,

Maarten Bullynck

Département de mathématiques & histoire des sciences
Université Paris 8




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