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Sara van den Berg

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Sara van den Berg Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Sara van den Berg

Birthname

Birthday: July 16, 1958

Educated At: Yale University, University Of Minnesota

Occupations: Professor

Profesisonal Interests: Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Disability Studies, Medical Humanities, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Walter Ong, Pain

Total quotes: 3

“The nonverbal digital dichotomies of computer language and DNA require the hermeneutic of verbal or alphabetic language.”

— Sara van den Berg, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Tagged: The Technology of Language, The Technology of Thought And Expression, Alphabet, No Science Without Literature, Scientific Groundings

“As computing grows ever greater in speed and scale, as the chip is replaced by the quark and even by the human cell, and as the human body itself comes to be regarded as the expression of genetic information, we have an ever greater need for interpretation and for language.”

— Sara van den Berg, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Tagged: The Next Stages of Humanity, The Technology of Language

“Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.”

— Sara van den Berg, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization

Tagged: Information Overload, Lost In Data Oceans, Identity, Data, Quote of the Moment

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