The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic / quote 1 of 8
the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer
Despite all this enthusiasm, the question of what the digital humanities is has yet to be given a satisfactory answer. Indeed, no one asks it more often than the digital humanists themselves. The recent proliferation of books on the subject—from sourcebooks and anthologies to critical manifestos—is a sign of a field suffering an identity crisis, trying to determine what, if anything, unites the disparate activities carried on under its banner.