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Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal Takeover of the University: A Response

Digital Humanities and the Neoliberal Takeover of the University: A Response By Michele RosenArticles deploring the Digital Humanities have been common for some time now. But the May 1 article by Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” provoked a more intense response than most because of the grave nature of the issue at hand – namely, “the neoliberal takeover of the university” (para. 1). Few scholars and advocates of higher education who acknowledge this ongoing takeover, as I do, see it Read more