Words are numbers too

One reason to get excited about the rise of the enticingly named "digital humanities" is that pretty soon students will be able to do their math homework and their English homework at the same time. The two subjects will converge (as things tend to do these days), and that should greatly enhance the efficiency of education. Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it portends, in two nicely circuitous longforms: Longform #1 and Longform #2....