ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we embark on a reflexive exercise that confronts the techno-utopianism inherent in the digital humanities and its complicity in reproducing neoliberal practices within the university. Using the authors’ Digital Mary Project as a case study, we offer a critique of our own shortcomings – particularly the project’s initial “tools and archives” approach – while also reflecting on the ways in which we might envision a digital counter-practice that attempts to negotiate its position both within and against the hierarchical structure of the academy, through the establishment of a new, more equitable communal network.
