Analogue Humanities?

It has long since become undeniable that we live in a digital culture. Not only everyday life, but also scholarly research is shaped by digital technologies to such an extent that it has become questionable to single out one now well-established subfield as Digital Humanities. In a culture defined by digitality, the very question of what counts as Digital Humanities grows increasingly complex. What distinguishes the various approaches within the humanities today? Do they employ different methods, investigate different objects, or rely on distinct heuristics? Where do they overlap, and how do their mixtures and intersections take shape? And if we speak of Digital Humanities, does it make sense to posit, by contrast, something like Analogue Humanities? This volume also inverts the usual perspective and sharpens precisely this question: whether, and in what way, such a distinction is still meaningful. The book explores, on the one hand, the practical patterns of contemporary scholarly work and the discursive assumptions that underlie them. On the other hand, it addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges that have become newly visibleor newly urgentthrough digital research practices. In this way, Digital Humanities serves as a productive lens of reflection. From philosophical, media studies, sociological, historical, and literary perspectives, the contributions in this volume examine the evolving role of the humanities in the digital age. The result is a timely and thought-provoking exploration of how scholarship itself is being transformedand what this transformation means for the future of humanistic inquiry.