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https://magazine.swissinformatics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/00_KeyImage._Article_deFremery.jpg678381The textual scholar and literary critic Jerome McGann begins his most recent book with the following: “Here is surely a truth now universally acknowledged: that the whole of our cultural inheritance has to be recurated and reedited in digital forms and institutional structures.”[1] McGann emphasizes the enormous consequences of this acknowledged truth. The whole of our cultural inheritance is being produced again as simulacra meant to stand for the people, objects, and ideas we care enough about to make available again. The perils and opportunities presented by digital reproductions are suggested by the word reproduction—productions that are produced again.