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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140467503321

Autore

Shackelford Laura

Titolo

Tactics of the human : experimental technics in American fiction / / Laura Shackelford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2015

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2014

ISBN

9780472900169

0472900161

9780472052387

0472052381

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

LIT004020SOC052000

Disciplina

813.009/356

Soggetti

Experimental fiction, American - History and criticism

Literature and the Internet - United States

Hypertext fiction - History and criticism

Human body and technology in literature

Literature and technology - United States

American fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally



human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"--