The Tactical Humanities Lab is a Digital Humanities and STS research center oriented towards social justice. The THL does not believe in building “tools,” but rather in leveraging interpretive and humanistic ways of knowing to redefine the scope and boundaries of the digital.

The Tactical Humanities Lab’s starting point is that “the digital” is not a set of tools to be deployed to get social justice done. Rather, the digital, as a coagulation of material, symbolic, and epistemic apparatuses, is entangled with histories of justice, appropriation, resistance, oppression, knowledge-making, agonism, and power. Similarly, the digital is not just a set of material and semiotic systems. It is a pattern of thought that exists as cultural, philosophical, and material practices before and beyond computational systems. As such, it is always ideological, always political, always multiple.