"'Time, ' wrote Gilles Deleuze, 'takes thought.' Sensations of History brilliantly lays out a new domain of temporal analysis, tracking how mediatic dimensions of time are at once enmeshed in and explicated by events of history. In a tour de force analysis of what can only be sensed in animation, James J. Hodge lets the other shoe drop: 'History now takes animation.'"–Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology
"Sensations of History challenges common claims about the ahistorical tendencies of media, contending that digital artifacts are crucial to understanding historical experience in the twenty-first century. James J. Hodge supports this argument through original analyses of computational artworks, spambots, videogames, machinima films, and e-poetry. Throughout this book, thought-provoking encounters with digital media are also attempts to face a history characterized by deep opacity and multilayered ambivalence."–Patrick Jagoda, author of Network Aesthetics
"In a sophisticated and much-needed challenge to entrenched notions that digital media is ahistorical, James J. Hodge urges readers to address digital inscription as 'digital experience, ' contending that we urgently need to understand digital media's fundamental transformation of history as an opportunity rather than a loss–as an aesthetic enrichment and sensory intensification of historical experience itself."–Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University
