It was bound to happen. The University of Southern California has introduced a program that studies computer code—not for what it produces, but instead actually examining code through the lens of critical theory. It’s called Critical Code Studies, and it’s one of the most exciting nascent fields of academic studies out there. Henry Jenkins did an interview with Mark Marino, head of the Critical Code Studies department at USC, and he had this to say. Critical Code Studies finds code meaningful not as text but “as a text,” an artifact of a digital moment, full of hooks for discussing digital…