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Moretti shadow puppets

Hi all,

Just wanted to share this photo from Moretti’s talk at NYU last week that Jojo and I attended. Very interesting stuff. As you can see, in addition to his work on distant reading, the projects on which he collaborates with his graduate students at the Stanford Literary Lab, Moretti is also something of an amateur shadow puppeteer. Just what animal haunts the vertical axis of this 18th- & 19th-century literary popularity/prestige graph?

moretti shadow puppet

Moretti is coming!

Actually, he may be here already.

BUT apropos of this week’s readings, HE IS IN TOWN!

GC Digital Fellow Ms. Erin Glass gave me the heads up — Franco Moretti will be giving two talks this week at NYU (info pasted below).

from the NYU site:

  • Wednesday, March 4th, 6:00 p.m.
    First Wednesday Speaker Series and English Dept. Annual Goldstone Lecture: “Micromégas: The very small, the very large, and the object of Digital Humanities,” Franco Moretti (Stanford University)
    Location: Room 102, Cantor Film Center
  • Thursday, March 5th, 12:30 p.m.
    Goldstone Seminar: “Canon/Archive. Large-scale Dynamics in the Literary Field,” Franco Moretti (Stanford University)
    Please RSVP here.
    Location: The Event Space, 244 Greene St.
    I am going and will report back for those who can’t make it!
    -Jojo