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Calculation as a cultural practice in modern literature
Neohelicon Pub Date : 2019-09-25 , DOI: 10.1007/s11059-019-00498-x
László Bengi

The opposition between quantitative sciences and the humanities is a well-known problem of cultural debates, along with its reflection in the conflicting approaches to digital humanities. As the emphasis has moved from long-standing scientific methods of quantification to the overall digital turn of everyday life, this process sheds light on the varying sociocultural conditions for calculations in modern societies. Consequently, numbers cannot be conceived as inherent properties of things by discovery through experimentation and explanation: this essentialist conception seems to originate in a misunderstanding of nineteenth-century scientific research and its claim of objectivity. Rather, quantification and the cultural matrices of calculation build a raster image serving as an interface between world and mind. In this broad sense, everyday life is deeply pervaded by numbers. Moreover, the ability for calculations cannot be treated as a uniform skill any more. Instead, it varies in accordance with different cultural forms and functions. Number-based practices are also represented widely in modern literature and in non-literary works, such as being in the letters and diaries of many writers. The essay is thus intended to analyze and compare the forms of calculation in the novels and diaries of some East Central European writers—such as Kafka, Kosztolanyi, Musil—who thrived in the first decades of the twentieth century. In so doing, it describes three models through which calculation as a cultural practice enters the field of literature.

中文翻译:

作为现代文学中的一种文化实践的计算

定量科学与人文科学之间的对立是文化争论中的一个众所周知的问题,同时也反映在数字人文科学的冲突方法中。随着重点从长期存在的科学量化方法转移到日常生活的整体数字化转变,这一过程揭示了现代社会中计算的不同社会文化条件。因此,不能通过实验和解释的发现将数字视为事物的固有属性:这种本质主义概念似乎源于对 19 世纪科学研究及其客观性主张的误解。相反,量化和计算的文化矩阵构建了一个光栅图像,作为世界和心灵之间的接口。在这个广义上,日常生活被数字深深地渗透着。而且,计算能力也不能再被当成一个统一的技能了。相反,它根据不同的文化形式和功能而变化。基于数字的实践在现代文学和非文学作品中也有广泛的表现,例如在许多作家的信件和日记中。因此,本文旨在分析和比较一些在 20 世纪头几十年蓬勃发展的东中欧作家——如卡夫卡、科斯托拉尼、穆西尔——的小说和日记中的计算形式。在此过程中,它描述了计算作为一种文化实践进入文学领域的三种模式。它根据不同的文化形式和功能而有所不同。基于数字的实践在现代文学和非文学作品中也有广泛的表现,例如在许多作家的信件和日记中。因此,本文旨在分析和比较一些在 20 世纪头几十年蓬勃发展的东中欧作家——如卡夫卡、科斯托拉尼、穆西尔——的小说和日记中的计算形式。在此过程中,它描述了计算作为一种文化实践进入文学领域的三种模式。它根据不同的文化形式和功能而有所不同。基于数字的实践在现代文学和非文学作品中也有广泛的表现,例如在许多作家的信件和日记中。因此,本文旨在分析和比较一些在 20 世纪头几十年蓬勃发展的东中欧作家——如卡夫卡、科斯托拉尼、穆西尔——的小说和日记中的计算形式。在此过程中,它描述了计算作为一种文化实践进入文学领域的三种模式。因此,本文旨在分析和比较一些在 20 世纪头几十年蓬勃发展的东中欧作家——如卡夫卡、科斯托拉尼、穆西尔——的小说和日记中的计算形式。在此过程中,它描述了计算作为一种文化实践进入文学领域的三种模式。因此,本文旨在分析和比较一些在 20 世纪头几十年蓬勃发展的东中欧作家——如卡夫卡、科斯托拉尼、穆西尔——的小说和日记中的计算形式。在此过程中,它描述了计算作为一种文化实践进入文学领域的三种模式。
更新日期:2019-09-25
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