Writing and Reading Today: The History of the Humanities Tomorrow

Abstract

Today scholars “write” and students “read” with media that goes beyond paper. This essay analyzes the developments that make it possible: the recuperated speaker, the internet, digitization, and intensifying visualization. It then surveys the new forms of productions in the humanities that these developments give rise to. What will tomorrow’s historian of the humanities do with these new productions? This is answered in the last section of this article.