University (Indiana) has partnered with businesses as an alternative to student loans: investors front students the money to pay for education in exchange for a share in future earnings (Douglas-Gabriel 2015).

6This problem is not confined to digital art history. As English/Comp Lit scholar Brian Lennon notes, ". . .the digital humanities has displayed almost no specifically political interest in the world outside the university and too little explicit interest of any kind in the broader interinstitutional politics of the world within the university in its imbrication with the institutions of security and military intelligence" (Lennon 2014, 140–41).

7For a concise response, see Schulz (2011).

8Influenced by historian Ferdinand Braudel’s theory of the longue durée, Moretti argues that the novel developed as a system of its genres (in other words, wecannot speak of "the novel" but only of a whole set of forty-four genres). Looking at the publication rates for novels over periods of decades, he moves from quantitative facts to speculation and interpretation; for example, he suggests that the rise and fall of the various genres of the novel in the United Kingdom correlate to twenty-five- to thirty-five-year cycles (i.e., to generations of readers) (Moretti 2007). Earlier work, such as "Conjectures in World Literature," provocatively conclude that the modern novel first arises not as an autonomous development but as a compromise between a western formal influence (usually French or English) and local materials"; in other words, the Western European novel is an exception, not the rule (Moretti 2000).

9 This can be seen, for example, in Moretti’s quantification