The Humanities Laboratory
From Design to Archaeology
Aleksandra Kil-Matlak (Volume editor)
Wolska Dorota (Volume editor)
Summary
We are interested in what makes humanities laboratories different from their scientific relatives. Can a humanities lab and those investigating natural sciences even be considered as related? Or should the relationship between them be seen transversally, outside of the opposition between the humanities and the natural and formal sciences?
We argue that the humanities laboratory should not be based on the idea of mimesis and imitate a scientific lab, but rather operate according to the principle of mimicry. Only in this way can the humanities fulfil their self-critical function.
Details
- Pages
- 386
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631921074
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- humanities laboratory history of the humanities posthumanities digital humanities collaboration experiments infrastructure
- Published
- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2025. 386 pp., 16 fig. col., 2 fig. b/w.
- Product Safety
- Peter Lang Group AG
Biographical notes
Jacek Małczyński (Volume editor)
Aleksandra Kil-Matlak (Volume editor)
Wolska Dorota (Volume editor)
Aleksandra Kil-Matlak holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Wrocław, where she co-founded the Laboratory of Contemporary Humanities. She has contributed to Digital Humanities Quarterly and co-authored Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe (2018). Her recent book, published in Polish, explores index cards and the analogue humanities. Jacek Małczyński is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Wrocław. He co-edited “The Environmental History of the Holocaust”, a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (2020), and Knowledge in the Shadow of Catastrophe (2024). Dorota Wolska was a Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies at the University of Wrocław. Her areas of interest included cultural theory, the philosophy of the humanities, and aesthetics. As editor-in-chief of the Polish journal Prace Kulturoznawcze, she edited volumes on non-human culture, axiotic spaces of culture, and postsecularity.
