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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 Research, sense, structure. How computation changes research / Ian Foster ; We digital sensemakers / Mark Stefik ; Scholarsource: a digital infrastructure for the humanities / Paolo d'Iorio and Michele Barbera ; Responses. "We will really know" / Alan Liu ; On scholarship / Graham White -- Ontology, semantic web, creativity. Switching partners: dancing with the ontological engineers / Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith ; The semantic web from the bottom up / James Hendler ; Logical induction, machine learning, and human creativity / Jean-Gabriel Ganascia ; Responses. Relating modes of thought / William J. Clancey ; Intelligence and the limits of codes / Albert Borgmann -- Interlude. Figment: the switching codes game / Eric Zimmerman -- Panorama, interactivity, embodiment. The digital panorama and cinemascapes / Roderick Coover ; Re-place: the embodiment of virtual space / Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine, and Roderick Coover ; Response. Rewiring culture, the brain, and digital media / Vibeke Sorensen -- Re/presentations: language and facsimile. Electronic linguistics / George Quasha in dialogue with Gary Hill -- The migration of the aura, or how to explore the original through its facsimiles / Bruno Latour and Adam Lowe ; Responses. The truth in versions / Charles Bernstein ; Pamphlets, paintings, and programs: faithful reproduction and untidy generativity in the physical and digital domains / Judith Donath -- Epilogue. Enquire within upon everything / Richard Powers.
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