Ben Merriman is a doctoral candidate in Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
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Ben Merriman is a doctoral candidate in Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
It has been said that computation will mark the end of humanistic inquiry. Actual literary research in this vein suggests otherwise.
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