Switching Codes

Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

By: Thomas Bartscherer (Editor), Roderick Coover (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.

Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings together leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists—including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers—to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act. Employing a wide range of forms, including essay, dialogue, short fiction, and game design, this book aims to model and foster discussion between IT specialists, who typically have scant training in the humanities or traditional arts, and scholars and artists, who often understand little about the technologies that are so radically transforming their fields. Switching Codes will be an indispensible volume for anyone seeking to understand the impact of digital technology on contemporary culture, including scientists, educators, policymakers, and artists, alike.

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Introduction	p. 1
Research, Sense, Structure
How Computation Changes Research	p. 15
We Digital Sensemakers	p. 38
Scholarsource: A Digital Infrastructure for the Humanities	p. 61
Responses
ôWe Will Really Knowö	p. 89
On Scholarship	p. 95
Ontology, Semantic Web, Creativity
Switching Partners: Dancing with the Ontological Engineers	p. 103
The Semantic Web from the Bottom Up	p. 125
Logical Induction, Machine Learning, and Human Creativity	p. 140
Responses
Relating Modes of Thought	p. 161
Intelligence and the Limits of Codes	p. 184
Interlude: Figment: The Switching Codes Game Eric Zimmerman	p. 191
Panorama, Interactivity, Embodiment
The Digital Panorama and Cinemascapes	p. 199
Re-place: The Embodiment of Virtual Space	p. 218
Response
Rewiring Culture, the Brain, and Digital Media	p. 239
Re/presentations: Language and Facsimile
Electronic Linguistics: George Quasha in dialogue with Gary Hill	p. 249
The Migration of the Aura, or How to Explore the Original through Its Facsimiles	p. 275
Responses
The Truth in Versions	p. 299
Pamphlets, Paintings, and Programs: Faithful Reproduction and Untidy Generativity in the Physical and Digital Domains	p. 301
Epilogue: Enquire Within Upon Everything	p. 307
List of Contributors	p. 315
Index	p. 321
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