Literature, Data, and Digitizing Books

From the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities.

Data banks are the Encyclopedia of tomorrow. They transcend the capacity of each of their users. They are “nature” for postmodern man.

– Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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