Tessa Gengnagel

oh dang, thank you! Happy to hear that this still resonates a few years on.

@chnunn.bsky.social opens our conference „Disciplinary Transformations?“ We will discuss how H have impacted DH. @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

Rereading this long 2022 piece by James Pogue. He’s not the only one to limn the intellectual/ideological framework for the forces now empowered, but this is detailed, nuanced, and sourced. www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04...

Screenshot der digitalen FAS mit dem Artikel, Überschrift: Angriff auf die Vergangenheit

Für die FAS durfte ich über die aktuellen Löschkampagnen in den USA und über die veränderte Rolle digitaler Bildarchive angesichts generativer KI schreiben – und darüber, warum Datensicherung jetzt das Gebot der Stunde ist: zeitung.faz.net/fas/feuillet...

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

Heute gab es Bücher und Buch-imitierende Kuchen! Dank an Dr. @tesstess.bsky.social !

#DHmakes

Last thought: I wasn't sure whether to name Amadeus. It technically qualifies and it's one of the best films of any kind. But it's a total piece of character assassination re: Salieri; pop culture myth-making. On avg (quality vs historical value) it's part of the convo but probably not on balance.

For sure. (I personally can't stand Depardieu but that's another matter.) Many films have good advisors, doesn't mean they implement advice. And then films may listen to advisors (e.g. The Northman) & still end up questionable from a historian's perspective for other reasons. It's a set of issues.

I mean it really rather depends on what "best" film means in this context. Most accurate? Something like The Duellists ranks high in that regard. But it's difficult enough to find good pre-19th c. films to begin with, comparatively speaking and looking at the mainstream (historical = expensive).

A Royal Affair (2012), Michael Kohlhaas (2013), Elizabeth (1998), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Amadeus (1984), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The New World (2005), A Touch of Zen (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), Wolf Hall (TV, 2015) + a few by Kurosawa...

Thanks, I hope there will be something useful in it! There's plenty I didn't get to discuss and it still operates within a scope that's narrow in many ways (e.g. focus on 'works') but it's a step in one direction, so maybe some food for thought.

Indeed 😂 Although the last 100 pages or so are just bibliography. But yes it's a long read, if read cover to cover, not gonna lie, it's why I inserted chapter abstracts. So it should make some sense no matter how it's perused.

It's a very interdisciplinary work but chapter IV is focused on medieval materials (and they come up in other places as well). The main arguments build on each other; selective reading should be possible as well though, to some degree.

Thanks, I hope it's as interesting as it sounds 😂

Danke! 🤗

My thesis about "Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text" has now been published as an OA monograph: doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1132.

It covers multi-transmitted picture / film works from medieval to modern times, modelling theory, #DigitalHumanities theory and a bunch of other stuff ✍️

I will, thanks!

Does anyone have any recs for feeds one should follow as a DH / digital humanities person on here? I looked around but couldn't find too much (happy to follow ppl but was wondering due to the lack of hashtag implementation).

Oh that's amazing, good luck with those projects, I'm excited to follow along for updates!

Thanks! I'm doing alright, finally getting the mandatory publication of my thesis off my back in January. How have you been? Hope you've been well! I keep thinking that I need to catch up on your writing!

I feel like such a spam bot trying to follow everyone I followed on T**tter at once while having zero followers and posts of my own here 😂 If there's a better way to do it, I missed it.