Sustainability and complexity: Knowledge and authority in the digital humanities

Abstract Concepts of sustainability touch every aspect scholarly work and are particularly urgent in thinking about those practices that depend on digital technology. The costs scholarship frequently posed terms human labor rights abuses, ecological environmental damage, carbon footprints, waste resources associated with obsolescence, other issues affect stage the lifecycle production. But also needs to be understood as an epistemic concept embedded complex systems, not merely a set problems solved through instrumental means applied operational logistics. This article addresses mechanistic approaches sustainability, while suggesting complexity requires humanistic methods ethical principles engaged decisions future pedagogy, research, institutional sites.