Towards a manifesto for a critical digital humanities: critiquing the extractive capitalism of digital society

• DOI: 10.1057/s41599-018-0075-y
• Publication Date: 2018-02-17T14:56:22Z
• Authors: Mike Grimshaw
• Keywords: Manifesto

Abstract This article proceeds in two distinct parts. The first section engages with a deliberately small number of popular texts written by discriminating and interrogative consumers producers digital culture society. While these may be dismissed as journalistic sources those more focused academic intent, here are used because they the connection between engagement wider public readership. As such, frame what can termed critical capitalism. These read tandem my thesis immaterial capitalism Marazzi’s’ Violence Financial Capitalism . paper then concludes described ‘manifesto turn’ raising some questions for renewed society, to undertaken from is termed, an emergent humanities, site critique resistance. exercise labelled Mongrel methodology ideology, neo-logism provocative intent signal post-academic approach, chosen over such traditional descriptors mixed-methods or assemblage like. it draw on Marxist thought but not ideology final intent; acknowledges our on-going existence possibilities within it; seeking act intermediary non-academic readings responses. It deliberate provocation manifesto call change.