Walt Whitman's Slips: Manufacturing Manuscript

SlipS and FallS

Injuries associated with slips and falls continue to be a significant burden to society, both in terms of human suffering and economic losses. Fall accidents are the second leading cause of accidental death in the United States (after motor vehicle accidents), resulting in more than 25,000 fatalities in 2009 and accounting for nearly 9 million visits to the emergency department (National Safety...

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Walt Disney World: Marxism and Myth Creation

Slips of the typewriter key

This article presents an analysis of 500 submorphemic slips of the typewriter key that escaped the notice of authors and other proofreaders and thereby made their way into the published records of scientific research. Despite this high selectivity, the corpus is not found to differ in major ways from other collections of keying slips. The main characteristics of this error type include a predom...