https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/alothian/Recent content in Alothian on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USThu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/conversations/marked-bodies-transformative-scholarship-and-the-question-of-theory-in-digital-humanities-by-alexis-lothian/Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/conversations/marked-bodies-transformative-scholarship-and-the-question-of-theory-in-digital-humanities-by-alexis-lothian/<p>In October 2011, Natalia Cecire’s <a href="http://nataliacecire.blogspot.com/2011/10/when-dh-was-in-vogue-or-thatcamp-theory.html" title="Natalia Cecire, 'When DH Was in Vogue; or THATCamp Theory'">off-the-cuff suggestion of a THATCamp Theory</a> set off a ferment of planning and arguing in the digital humanities community. It sounded like a great idea to me. Beginning with <a href="http://socal2011.thatcamp.org/01/11/opendh/" title="THATCamp SoCal 2011 Session Proposal, 'Towards an Open Digital Humanities'">a session on “diversity in digital humanities”</a> at THATCamp SoCal in January 2011––well attended both in person and remotely––I had been collaborating with an amorphous group of scholars engaged with critical cultural studies, queer studies, and ethnic studies in the context of the digital. We had been thinking about ways to connect the ethic of making that is central to digital humanities with a greater self-consciousness about the way everything is structured and its cultural politics; I was keen to continue and broaden that conversation.</p>