In fact, I’m somewhat in astonished awe at the recent push for supercomputing in the humanties. Don’t get me wrong; I think that supercomputing power applied to humanties-oriented applications will yield innumerable treasures, helping scholars discover as-yet-unimaginable correspondences between word frequencies, textual representation, and aesthetic structure.

[From mistersquid: a digital fiction: Resurface]

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this is a good start toward a reflexive critique of the cyberinfrastructure in the humanities movement.

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