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Thomas Bartscherer is assistant professor of humanities and director of the Language and Thinking Program at Bard College. He is coeditor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Roderick Coover is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. He is the author of the digital publications Cultures in Webs: Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image and Verite to Virtual: Conversations on the Frontier of Film and Anthropology.
At a moment when culture's digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention. This book practices what it preaches, provoking cross-disciplinary dialogue and challenging the staid form of the usual essay collection, offering insteadan engaging set of critical texts, poetry, fiction, games, and responses. Bartscherer, Coover, and their authorstake up the challenges posed by the digital arts and humanities, mapping their new contexts, defining their analytic repertoire, and compelling a fresh set of insights.More than a portrait of our times, Switching Codes exemplifies the very logics that it explicates. --William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Switching Codes is a highly interesting and important collection of essays that addresses a current, burgeoningconcern with the present condition and future of what we now call Digital Humanities. Most remarkably, this bookmakes a conscious effort to open questions about the future of scholarship in digitally mediated cultureto art that is born digital. This is a book I will refer to frequently. --John Cayley, Brown University Switching Codes is a highly interesting and important collection of essays that addresses a current, burgeoning concern with the present condition and future of what we now call Digital Humanities. Most remarkably, this book makes a conscious effort to open questions about the future of scholarship in digitally mediated culture to art that is born digital. This is a book I will refer to frequently. --John Cayley, Brown University At a moment when culture's digital makeover seems to have induced epistemological vertigo in many, Switching Codes offers a timely and well-targeted intervention. This book practices what it preaches, provoking cross-disciplinary dialogue and challenging the staid form of the usual essay collection, offering instead an engaging set of critical texts, poetry, fiction, games, and responses. Bartscherer, Coover, and their authors take up the challenges posed by the digital arts and humanities, mapping their new contexts, defining their analytic repertoire, and compelling a fresh set of insights. More than a portrait of our times, Switching Codes exemplifies the very logics that it explicates. --William Uricchio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
