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Alan Jacobs:

Digital textuality offers us the chance to restorecommentarytoits pre-modern place as the central scholarly genre.

Recent technologies enable a renewal of commentary, but struggle to overcome a post-Romantic belief that commentary is belated, derivative. …

If our textual technologies promote commentary but we resist it, we will achieve a Pyrrhic victory over our technologies.

Andrew Piper:

The main difference between our moment and the lost world of pre-modern commentary that Ja...