The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic / quote 8 of 8

This is not Luddism?

The best thing that the humanities could do at this moment, then, is not to embrace the momentum of the digital, the tech tsunami, but to resist it and to critique it. This is not Luddism

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