04273nam 2200745 450 991078617170332120230803025041.00-231-53164-810.7312/tayl16040(CKB)2670000000324779(EBL)1028092(OCoLC)828303090(SSID)ssj0000834045(PQKBManifestationID)11519927(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834045(PQKBWorkID)10981320(PQKB)10592568(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099267(MiAaPQ)EBC1028092(DE-B1597)459380(OCoLC)979739810(DE-B1597)9780231531641(Au-PeEL)EBL1028092(CaPaEBR)ebr10956848(CaONFJC)MIL562554(EXLCZ)99267000000032477920141030h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRewiring the real in conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo /Mark C. TaylorNew York :Columbia University Press,2013.©20131 online resource (339 p.)Religion, Culture, and Public LifeIncludes index.0-231-16040-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --neχus --1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion /Gaddis, William --2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark /Powers, Richard --3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves /Danielewski, Mark --4. "Holy Shit!": Don DeLillo, Underworld --5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion --Acknowledgments --Notes --IndexDigital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.Religion, culture, and public life.Technology in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature21st centuryHistory and criticismTechnological innovationsReligious aspectsTheology in literatureSpirituality in literatureTechnology in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Technological innovationsReligious aspects.Theology in literature.Spirituality in literature.810.9/356HU 3451rvkTaylor Mark C.1945-158562MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786171703321Rewiring the real3697865UNINA