**Apologies for a few tiny audio glitches in this episode – we’re still working on perfecting our audio setup.**
In this podcast we discuss the article published in the Los Angeles Review of Books in May 2016 that criticized the Digital Humanities more broadly, some of the criticisms of it that followed, and relate this to some of our experiences in DH.
(anti-DH) LARB article – Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities (May 1, 2016)
LARB DH series – The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Bethany Nowviskie (May 9, 2016)
Some responses and criticisms that we read related to the anti-DH LARB article:
Grace Afsari-Mamagani – In Defense of DH
Jacquelyn Clements – In Support of Digital Humanities
Schuyler Esprit – tweets in Storify
Brian Greenspan – The Scandal of Digital Humanities
Alan Jacobs – Critiquing the Critique of Digital Humanities
Alan Liu – tweets in Storify
Alex Reid – De-baits in the Digital Humanities
Roopika Risam – Digital Humanities in Other Contexts
Amardeep Singh – In Defense of Digital Tools (by a Non-Tool)
Tuotilo (PhD student in Germany) – To Be in DH Is To Be Under Attack
Ted Underwood – Versions of Disciplinary History
Steward Varner – A few thoughts on the whole DH, neoliberalism, LARB thing