Digital humanities e ‘realtà aumentata’

Abstract

The essay has a methodological and hermeneutic goal, that is to verify the effectiveness of the current state of DH in relation to philological and literary studies and to the infinite field of ‘augmented reality’ and the ‘virtual’ universe achieved by the achievements of information technology and nanotechnologies. With some deliberate ‘provocation’ the essay shows the criticalities and the not small shadows of these intertwining, proposing new epistemic knots to be covered by the DH, under penalty of their perpetual subordination to the ‘technique without thought’ with the consequent inability to truly renew in the deep the horizons of our studies. It is necessary to play the best of technological innovations in a process of equal alliance, completely unexplored for now, and capable of moving from research to teaching to publishing itself.