![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though they’re naturally smart, strong, and quick, the twins also each have special abilities. When twins Dawn and Dusk, young members of the Amazon rain forest’s Morning Tribe, discover that their homeland is being threatened by Global Agricorp mercenaries, they gather their friends and rise to the challenge of protecting it. Thus does the historic overlap of cryptology and philology persist in an artifact of computing-passwords-that many of us use every day.The Morning Tribe is a middle-grade action-adventure graphic novel that showcases young people protecting our critical environment and teaches that we are all part of the struggle to save the Earth’s future and sustain the human race. One of their preferred tools is the dictionary, that preeminent product of the philologist’s scholarly labor, which supplies the raw material for computational processing of natural language. Like philologists, hackers use computational methods to break open the secrets coded in text. Lennon emphasizes the convergence of cryptology and philology in the modern digital password. Throughout, Passwords makes clear the continuity between cryptology and philology, showing how the same practices flourish in literary study and in conditions of war. Lennon’s history encompasses the first documented techniques for the statistical analysis of text, early experiments in mechanized literary analysis, electromechanical and electronic code-breaking and machine translation, early literary data processing, the computational philology of late twentieth-century humanities computing, and early twenty-first-century digital humanities. What is more, these humanistic uses, no less than cryptological ones, are marked and constrained by the priorities of security and military institutions devoted to fighting wars and decoding intelligence. He argues that computing’s humanistic applications are as historically important as its mathematical and technical ones. But Brian Lennon contends that these two domains, both concerned with authentication of text, should be viewed as contiguous. Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typically understood as separate domains of activity. ![]()
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