Burdick et al., Digital_Humanities"This book is a compact work composed by a group of practitioners from a variety of humanities disciplines and elds, including design. For all their diversity, the authors share a core conviction that informs every page of the book.This core conviction is embodied in the title of our book, Digital_Humanities.The underscore between the two words references the white space between them as a vital yoke and shifting signi er, one that presents the two concepts in a productive tension, without either becoming absorbed into the other.The underscore is not merely a graphical notation; rather, it is used deliberately as an overdetermined marker of the critical nexus between “digital” and “humanities.” It references the precarious, ex- perimental, and unde ned future of the humanities in a world fundamentally trans- formed by everything digital.Although we do not use the underscore throughout the text, it remains the subject of every page of this book. And while it may seem paradoxical to write a book called Digital_Humanities, the very act demonstrates the continuities that link current practice to long-standing traditions."