Jerome McGann 
New Republic of Letters [EPUB ebook] 
Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Jerome Mc Gann’s manifesto argues that the history of texts and how they are preserved and accessed for interpretation are the overriding subjects of humanist study in the digital age. Theory and philosophy no longer suffice as an intellectual framework. But philology–out of fashion for decades–models these concerns with surprising fidelity.