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I am Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow and Theme Leader Fellow for the 'Digital Transformations' strategic theme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. I tweet as @ajprescott.

This blog is a riff on digital humanities. A riff is a repeated phrase in music, used by analogy to describe a improvisation or commentary. In the 16th century, the word 'riff' meant a rift; Speed describes riffs in the earth shooting out flames. The poet Jeffrey Robinson points out that riff perhaps derives from riffle, to make rough.

Maybe we need to explore these other meanings of riff in thinking about digital humanities, and seek out rough and broken ground in the digital terrain.

26 January 2012

An Electric Current of the Imagination

Illustration from 'Data Sea' by Michael Takeo Magruder (2009) AN ELECTRIC CURRENT OF THE IMAGINATION: WHAT THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARE AND WHAT THEY MIGHT BECOME  Lecture by Andrew Prescott at King's College London, 25 January 2012 It is a great honour for me to become head of this academic department devoted to the...

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25 January 2012

The Battle of the Books

Many apologies for my neglect of this blog. I've been very preoccupied with researching and writing my inaugural lecture at King's College which I am giving tonight. The text of the lecture will be available here sometime tomorrow. The timing of my lecture is due to our wish to link the King's College event to another inaugural lecture...

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