Data-Driven Modernism: Collecting Lives and Narrating Selves in Early 20th Century U.S. Literature.
Journal: Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
Year: 2015

Data-Driven Modernism argues that U.S. modernist life writers W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, Henry Adams, and Constantine Panunzio draw from their engagements with humanist empiricisms to formulate a critical data aesthetic. The introduction proposes a concept of data that is distinct from information, the database, and the digital. The following chapters demonstrate how data-driven modernists turn to data collection as a method for answering questions of identity. Drawing from professional eng