Dataist

"Operating a computer is not a complex task. Anybody can be taught to operate a computer. On the other hand, the smartest computer dataist cannot sit down at the control of a computer he had never seen before and make it do anything."

"As a matter of fact, evidence shows that while the Chinese Interpretationists owe a heavy spiritual debt to Hegel and Marx, the Dataists are no less a true intellectual heir of the Rankean school than of the Ch'ing philological tradition."

"If the Temeraire represents grounded theory (and other dataists) and at her last berth postmodernism waits, what about hermeneutics and critical theory?"

"Hara way offers a powerful new myth — the cyborg — for our postmodern dataist era which, according to her, follows a "command-control-communication-intelligence" code."

"The Dataist historians reject historiography on a theoretical level; the Interpretationist historians trade off their own productivity for foreign credits."

"Dataist works are not singular art objects but algorithmic procedures and digital databases that have a symbolic description."