Designing Opacity

This chapter describes how the theoretical frameworks regarding opacity and refusal informed the final dissertation platform--the Opaque Online Publishing Platform. To do this, it navigates disparate stands of thought in the digital humanities, and Indigenous critiques of western colonialism.

Section: 1: A Shift towards the Anticolonial

This section describes how the Opaque Online Publishing Platform resulted from the combination of critical digital humanities practices and anticolonial theory. This section outlines the theoretical and practical considerations made in the development of the platform.

4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4

Section: 2: Refusals and Opacities

This section details how modes of refusal are used in and against academic research, describing a need for scholars to consider speculative approaches that take research subjects' personhood into account.

4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4

Section: 3: Digital and Ethical Workflows

This section goes into the workflows and code that enabled the final dissertation to be published on the web.

4.3.1 | 4.3.2 | 4.3.3 | 4.3.4 | 4.3.5

Section: 4: Conclusion

4.4.1