ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the new and promising field of digital humanities because it is supposed to do what Interdiscipline purports to accomplish: updates literary studies; brings sciences, technology, and humanities together; and presents a wholly new paradigm for knowledge understanding and production. This chapter shows why none of this holds and goes on to affirm a more promising track of teaching practices—like those at the University of California, Los Angeles, among other institutions. They espouse a critical aspect of the humanities and offer them to technology and science students, because they complement education with insights and skills scientists need to understand how reality is constructed and how interpretation and other framing practices work. The chapter also proposes a different form of distant reading using Russian formalism.
