Une « utopie politique » pour les humanités numériques ?

In recent years the digital humanities have become increasingly important in the field of research in the humanities and social sciences and now constitute a quasi-field of study in their own right. These recent developments call for an examination of the place which scientific models hold today but also of the techniques in the humanities and in particular the representation which they produce of social life. Furthermore, it is important to trace the historical and geographical genealogy of these new research practices to reveal the political utopias of which they are the portents and which will impact on the current changes affecting the organisation of research.