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        Date: 2026-05-23 08:04:02+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: where are the limits?

For digital humanities as a field of research, what is the most serious
intellectual limitation? Is there one overriding problem holding everyone 
back--even if they don't realise what it is? Is there a fundamental 
impediment that if removed, circumvented or better understood would 
liberate research across the disciplines which computing engages 
with?

Or is there something wrong with the assumptions I am making? If so, 
is there a better way of thinking about our difficulties?

All best,
WM
--
Willard McCarty, Professor em., King's College London;
Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities
(tinyurl.com/Berghahn-IRASH); Humanist (dhhumanist.org);
Science in the Forest, Science in the Past
(www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/sfsp/);
www.mccarty.org.uk


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