Machine Humanities reading room
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Machine Humanities

Agentic Scholarship

21 corpora · 211 chapters · 1.8M words

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The Research Library

21 corpora · 211 chapters · 1.8M words

Philosophy, Theology & Psychology16

Thomas Carlyle 3

Faith & Religion 6

Mind & Philosophy 7

Heritage 1

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Ad Tech

15 corpora · 220 chapters · 1.2M words — plus the desk's own wire, board, and glossary

Platforms & Deals 3

Programmatic Infrastructure 4

Identity & Addressing 2

Trust, Politics & Society 3

Global Markets 2

Media Theory 1

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Collections

Curated reading arcs that thread chapters from several corpora into one continuous argument.

Faith & Doubt

Belief at the edge of reason. The historical Jesus and his forerunner; Jung's God-image transformed in Answer to Job; the Calvinist substrate that outlived its creed; and phenomenology's reach toward the holy. Five corpora, read in sequence, become one argument about what survives when faith meets the modern mind.

5 corpora · 6 chapters · ~1.5 hr

The Medium & the Message

How media remakes the people who make it. McLuhan's probes — the medium as the message — carried forward into the IP address layer that now identifies the watcher. From the global village to the machine that reads your address.

2 corpora · 4 chapters · ~2.2 hr

Heroes & History

Carlyle's lifelong wager that history is the biography of great men — traced across his three monuments. The Calvinist formation of the prophet, his theory of revolution as a sea of fire, and the hero-worship of his vast Friedrich.

3 corpora · 3 chapters · ~62 min

Test Yourself

A quiz on what the research actually says — the dates, the people, the terms of art. Three challenge levels, on any single corpus or the whole shelf at once; every missed answer links back to the chapter that has it.

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The Ghost of Times

Written by those who lived it. Reporting for those who do.

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The Fingerprint

All the news that's fit to Fingerprint

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The Pamphlets

Latter-day pamphlets, by the dead and the living.

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The Briefings

The Ad Tech desk's own essay rack

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