It is interested in and reflects upon how words, discourses and registers are employed in the languages of national identity, history, names and identities to enable some people to belong and some, to be excommunicated. This includes critical examination of the concepts, leaving nothing unexamined (for example, nationalism, secularism, heterosexuality). This is facilitated by deep reading and reflection on what is read. The digital age, marked by a preponderance of visual texts, shorter attention spans and slogan-type writing (the tweet being a pre-eminent instance), appears to be at odds with the way liberal arts and its cohort of disciplines – history, literature, music, philology, philosophy – have traditionally thought, spoken, written and been taught.įirst, liberal arts call for deep thinking and reflection. Liberal arts can be defined as being founded in humanistic inquiry for the well-being of both individual and society, and given to explorations of questions of method, social justice, scholarly traditions of interpretation and critical thinking.
While there is a concerted attempt to expand the scope of liberal arts for reasons ranging from ultra-nationalism to global rankings, it becomes essential to think of how liberal arts methods work for the digital age.
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