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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Interdisciplinary Topics: Data Signs-A Literary History of Information ENGLISH LITERATURE 470A Data is the quintessential modern commodity form. It is bought and sold, generated and consumed. It drives economies and power struggles. It can inform and empower, and it can surveil and subject. In this course we will trace the history of data by thinking about the stories data can tell as well as the stories people have told about data. We will map the development of its various forms - from bills of mortality during early modern plagues to accounting ledgers, from phone books to the census, from spreadsheets to distributed databases. We will ask how these different modes of representation have shaped our world by faceting it into categories, by quantifying aspects of it into measurable statistics. The massive utility of data is evident. But what are its blindnesses? In what ways does it replicate existing biases and power structures? Conversely, can thinking about data in more nuanced ways empower us and challenge hierarchies based on class, race and gender? Course Attributes: EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM Section 01Interdisciplinary Topics: Data Signs-A Literary History of Information INSTRUCTOR: BasuM-W---- 01:00 PM | 0324 11 View Course Listing - SP2023 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu