Concepts of sustainability touch every aspect of scholarly work and are particularly urgent in thinking about those practices that depend on digital technology. The costs of digital scholarship are frequently posed in terms of human labor and rights abuses, ecological and environmental damage, carbon footprints, waste of resources associated with obsolescence, and other issues that affect every stage of the lifecycle of production. But sustainability also needs to be understood as an epistemic concept embedded in complex systems, not merely as a set of problems to be solved through instrumental means applied to operational logistics. This article addresses mechanistic approaches to sustainability, while suggesting that the complexity of the concept of sustainability requires the humanistic methods and ethical principles to be engaged in decisions about future practices in pedagogy, research, and institutional sites.

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可持续性和复杂性：数字人文科学中的知识和权威

可持续性概念涉及学术工作的方方面面，在思考那些依赖数字技术的实践时尤为紧迫。数字学术的成本通常体现在人类劳动和权利滥用、生态和环境破坏、碳足迹、与过时相关的资源浪费以及影响生产生命周期每个阶段的其他问题方面。但可持续性也需要被理解为嵌入复杂系统的认知概念，而不仅仅是通过应用于运营物流的工具性手段来解决的一组问题。本文讨论了可持续性的机械方法，