The Digital Humanities and Technocultural Innovation
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The emergence of the “digital humanities” as a new research domain is an exciting development in the ongoing evolution of a scholarly enterprise. But it is important to remember that the engagement between the humanities and technology is not a new conversation. For example, in tracing the development of the “philosophy of technology” as a specific enterprise within the sub-disciplines of that field, Carl Mitchem (1994) identifies Lewis Mumford, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Ellul as the four founding figures of a specifically humanistic philosophy of technology. Mitchem reminds us that it was Mumford, in his book Technics and Civilization (1934), who was one of the first to call for humanists to pay attention to the “human values” in machinery, and to the “spiritual contributions” of the machine to culture. Consider also the history of the field of cultural studies that itself builds on the work of an entire tradition of (humanistic) critical theory. Many of the key thinkers in cultural and critical studies—especially those associated with the Frankfurt School— explicitly theorized the cultural dimensions of science and technology. Foundational theoretical terms such as “ideology,” “the public sphere,” and “capitalism,” were debated and clarified specifically in reference to the practices of technologists and the expropriation of a scientific worldview in the development of industrial and postindustrial societies. And of course, those literary scholars who study the history of the book and the emergence of new literary forms over time must also be understood as engaging with
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