Modeling Value in the Anthropocene – Work Plan

3/2-3/9:

Stiegler Lectures: Finish the 2016 Lectures and work through the entirety of the 2017 Lectures (Pages 50 – 169)

Discuss and decide how to prepare the corpus

Continue expanding Python / Text Analysis skillset through workshops and tutorials
Work through NLTK work book

Reach out to Daniel Ross to establish contact with the Internation Collective as part of audience-building and scholarly outreach

3/10-3/16:

Stiegler Lectures: 2018 Lectures (Pages 169 – 269)

Begin to clean and prepare the corpus

Go to the Word Embeddings workshop

Continue expanding Python / Text Analysis skillset
Go through “Automate the boring stuff with Python” lesson online

Meet with Filipa

3/17-3/23:

Stiegler Lectures: 2019 Lectures (Pages 269 – 345)

Lemmatize corpus, remove punctuation, start writing loops

Begin experimenting with the text in Jupyter (via topic modeling, word embedding, etc.)

Continue expanding Python / Text Analysis skillset through workshops and tutorials

3/24 – 3/30:

Begin to formalize and finalize the research methods and functions through which we will be carrying out our close reading of the text.

Proceed with distant reading of the text.

3/31 – 4/6:

Finalize and begin to implement the methods through which we will be carrying out our distant and close reading of the text.

Continue to grow and apply our capabilities with Python, Text Analysis, & Word Embedding.

Develop essay outline (and section delegation) and formalize our method of presentation.

4/7 – 4/13:

Proceed with close reading and essay development.

4/14 – 4/20:

Continue to develop project.

4/21 – 4/27:

Assemble a rough draft of the project’s final product

Proceed with group revisions

Consultation with the “two-two’s” for project critiques

4/28 – 5/04:

Continue to develop and finalize the project.

Finalize method of presentation.

5/05 – 5/11:

Make final preparations.