LEADER 04273nam 2200745 450 001 9910786171703321 005 20230803025041.0 010 $a0-231-53164-8 024 7 $a10.7312/tayl16040 035 $a(CKB)2670000000324779 035 $a(EBL)1028092 035 $a(OCoLC)828303090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11519927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10981320 035 $a(PQKB)10592568 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099267 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1028092 035 $a(DE-B1597)459380 035 $a(OCoLC)979739810 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231531641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1028092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10956848 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562554 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000324779 100 $a20141030h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewiring the real $ein conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo /$fMark C. Taylor 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (339 p.) 225 1 $aReligion, Culture, and Public Life 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-16040-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tne?us --$t1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion /$rGaddis, William --$t2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark /$rPowers, Richard --$t3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves /$rDanielewski, Mark --$t4. "Holy Shit!": Don DeLillo, Underworld --$t5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aDigital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew. 410 0$aReligion, culture, and public life. 606 $aTechnology in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTechnological innovations$xReligious aspects 606 $aTheology in literature 606 $aSpirituality in literature 615 0$aTechnology in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTechnological innovations$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aTheology in literature. 615 0$aSpirituality in literature. 676 $a810.9/356 686 $aHU 3451$2rvk 700 $aTaylor$b Mark C.$f1945-$0158562 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786171703321 996 $aRewiring the real$93697865 997 $aUNINA