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OverviewOn a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms draw from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data’s revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth RodriguesPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780472038909ISBN 10: 0472038907 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction “More nearly a transcript of life”: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literatures Chapter One “Such a body of information”: W. E. B. Du Bois, Data, and the Re-assemblage of Race and Self Chapter Two The Educations of Henry Adams and the Anxieties of Assemblage Selfhood Chapter Three To Tell a Story Wholly: Gertrude Stein, “Melanctha,” and Self as Data Collection Chapter Four To Reproduce a Record: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Labor of Data Collection Coda Data-Driven Modernism Against Algorithmic Identity Works CitedReviewsCollecting Lives is an exciting and timely work that connects early twentieth-century America and the digital humanities. Through Rodrigues's formulation of the epistemology of data, data collection plays a central role informing narratives of selfhood, strategies of othering, and anti-racist activism. --Wesley Beal, Lyon College--Wesley Beal, Lyon College ""Collecting Lives is an exciting and timely work that connects early twentieth-century America and the digital humanities. Through Rodrigues's formulation of 'the epistemology of data, ' data collection plays a central role informing narratives of selfhood, strategies of othering, and anti-racist activism."" --Wesley Beal, Lyon College--Wesley Beal, Lyon College Collecting Lives is an exciting and timely work that connects early twentieth-century America and the digital humanities. Through Rodrigues's formulation of 'the epistemology of data, ' data collection plays a central role informing narratives of selfhood, strategies of othering, and anti-racist activism. --Wesley Beal, Lyon College--Wesley Beal, Lyon College Author InformationElizabeth Rodrigues is Assistant Professor and Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Grinnell College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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