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presentation given at the International School of Tecnolgia, Society and Culture. Exploring the future of digital humanities. Algorithmic cultures ", Menéndez Pelay Internationa University, 14-18 September 2020. ; Presentation given at the "Escuela Internacional de Tecnológia, Sociedad y Cultura. Explorando el futuro de las Humanidades Digitales. Culturas Algorítmicas", Universidad Internaciona Menéndez Pelay, 14-18 de septiembre de 2020.

In this article the author tries to articulate a critical assessment of the current geopolitical assets of Digital Humanities. This critique is based firstly on data about the composition of various government organs, institutions and the principal journals in the field, and secondly on a general reflection on the cultural, political and linguistic bias of digital standards, protocols and interfaces. These reflections suggest that DH is not only a discipline and an academic discourse dominated materially by an Anglo-American élite and intellectually by a mono-cultural view, but also that it lacks a theoretical model for reflecting critically on its own instruments. The author concludes by proposing the elaboration of a different model of DH, based on the concept of knowledge as a commons and the cultivation of cultural margins, as opposed to its present obsession with large-scale digitization projects and 'archiving fever', that leads to an increase in our dependency on the products of private industry and, of course, on their funding.

"In this article the author tries to articulate a critical assessment of the current geopolitical assets of Digital Humanities. This critique is based firstly on data about the composition of various government organs, institutions and the principal journals in the field, and secondly on a general reflection on the cultural, political and linguistic bias of digital standards, protocols and interfaces. These reflections suggest that DH is not only a discipline and an academic discourse dominated materially by an Anglo-American élite and intellectually by a mono-cultural view, but also that it lacks a theoretical model for reflecting critically on its own instruments. The author concludes by proposing the elaboration of a different model of DH, based on the concept of knowledge as a commons and the cultivation of cultural margins, as opposed to its present obsession with large-scale digitization projects and 'archiving fever', that leads to an increase in our dependency on the products of private industry and, of course, on their funding." (author's abstract)

Este artículo es una versión actualizada del capítulo conclusivo de un libro dedicado a Raul Mordenti: Domenico Fiormonte y Paolo Sordi (2020), "Conclusioni. Testo-Politica-Computer: il trittico rivoluzionario di Raul Mordenti", in Domenico Fiormonte y Paolo Sordi (eds.), Letteratura e altre rivoluzioni. Scritti per Raul Mordenti. Roma: Bordeaux, pp. 264- 297. La traducción al español es de María Julia Vigliocco y Ernesto Priego. ; [Resumen] Raul Mordenti fue protagonista en Italia de una red científica, intelectual y política que ha atravesado, en conciencia y en acción, tres transformaciones epistémicas a caballo entre los siglos XX y XXI: la política, la de la universidad y de la investigación literaria y aquella que, en pocas palabras, podríamos definir como digital. Este texto resume la actualidad y la vitalidad de su reflexión intelectual y de su "imaginación científica" cuyo núcleo es la teoría de la práctica revolucionaria. En particular, la contribución descansa en un asunto de la revolución epistemológica de las ciencias humanas, cuyo centro gravita alrededor de las Humanidades Digitales que Mordenti contribuyó a fundar a finales de los años 80: el sentido del texto en un mundo colonizado por la digitalización. La sociedad algorítmica de las plataformas ha vuelto más manifiestas las interconexiones entre filología y crítica textual, tecnologías e intereses geopolíticos globales. Aplicaciones, medios sociales y algoritmos son hoy los editores de nuestra vida, promotores y patrones de un texto que asocia y une hechos, historias, palabras, personas: configuran una obra totalitaria frente a la cual se vuelve necesario llevar adelante una descolonización epistémica como punto de partida de una nueva revolución política, social y antropológica. ; [Abstract] Raul Mordenti is a prominent scientific, intellectual and political Italian figure who has lived and contributed to shape three epistemic transformations across the XX and XXI centuries: one political, one in education and literary research, and the last that we may define, for brevity, as digital. This paper summarizes the vitality of his intellectual reflections and his "scientific imagination" – the heart of which was the practical and theoretical idea of revolution. His contribution focuses in particular on the epistemological revolution in humanities, which gravitates around the field of digital humanities that Mordenti himself helped to found, trying to find the meaning of the text in a world colonized by digitalization. Algorithmic and platform societies have made the connections between philology and textual criticism, technologies and global geopolitical interests more evident: applications, media and algorithms have become the editors of our lives, promoters and masters of texts that group and connect facts, stories, words and people: a totalitarian body that requires a cognitive decolonization to catalyze a new political, social and anthropological revolution.

Often conceived of as an all-inclusive "big tent," digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives beyond Westernized and Anglophone contexts and assumptions. This latest collection in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series seeks to address this deficit in the field. Focused on thought and work that has been underappreciated for linguistic, cultural, or geopolitical reasons, contributors showcase alternative histories and perspectives that detail the rise of the digital humanities in the Global South and other "invisible" contexts and explore the implications of a globally diverse digital humanities. Advancing a vision of the digital humanities as a space where we can reimagine basic questions about our cultural and historical development, this volume challenges the field to undertake innovation and reform.