Digital Humanities and Visible and Invisible Infrastructures

The concept of infrastructure is fundamental in Marxist and post-Marxist theories, as a central element that determines or transforms the development of society, weighing on relations of power and production at a superstructural level. Pragmatically considered, and given the etymology of the term, infrastructures sustain or support something: a system, an object, a process. For this reason, infrastructures are usually defined as invisible to humans, who hardly notice their presence when they break or disappear (Bilder, Lin, and Neylon, “Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructure”; Bowker, “History of Information Infrastructures”; Corsin-Jimenez, Reclamar las Infraestructuras; Jackson et al., “Understanding Infrastructure”). This may