Academic Review Pans Critical Code Studies as Hype Over Substance

A review by digital humanities scholar Boris Orekhov criticizes Mark Marino's 'Critical Code Studies' for superficial code analysis and overblown claims. The book promises literary-style reading of software but delivers anecdotes and ideological slogans instead of rigorous methodology. Orekhov notes that LLMs, which generate code without social context, undermine Marino's framework entirely.