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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Filip Loredana"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Self-Help in the Digital Age : TED Talks, Speculative Fiction, and the Role of Reading / / Loredana Filip"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2024]"]
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[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9783111389929"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3111389928"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (VIII, 317 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Vigilanzkulturen / Cultures of Vigilance , , 2749-8913 ; ; 12"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"809.9339"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"HISTORY / Social History"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: What Do We Expect? -- I Happy Confessions: Context, Theory, Approach -- Introduction -- 2 Confessional Culture and American Self-Help -- 3 Confessions and Science Communication -- 4 Confessions and Reading: From Self-Writing to Life Writing -- II Self-Improvement: Finding Success in a Digital Age -- Introduction -- 5 TED Talks on \"How to Be a Better You\" and Social Media Influencers -- 6 Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story and the Privilege of \"Merely Existing\" -- 7 Literature and Scanning: \"A Burble of Warm White Spray\" -- III Mindfulness and Self-Vigilance in the Anthropocene -- Introduction -- 8 TED Talks on Mindfulness and the \"Second Sight\" -- 9 Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the \"Insight of Interbeing\" -- 10 Literature and Storytelling: \"These Stories Are Real as Kitchens\" -- IV Self-Transcendence in the Age of Empathy -- Introduction -- 11 TED Talks on \"What Makes You Happy?\" and the Science of Happiness -- 12 Richard Powers' Generosity: An Enhancement and the \"Small Shared Joy\" of Reading -- 13 Literature and Compositing: \"The Secret Quickening in the Hands\" -- 14 Conclusion: A Kinship of Posthumanity -- Bibliography -- List of Figures -- Index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","In an age where science and technology hold sway and the humanities face a crisis, this book explores the evolving role of literature. It delves into how American self-help culture shapes contemporary ideals of success, mindfulness, and happiness, with a particular focus on its influence in science communication, notably in TED talks. Moreover, it "]
[{"$nulls":4},"underscores the enduring relevance of literature in the digital era by analyzing speculative novels that challenge established norms, including those propagated by TED. These novels include Richard Powers’ Generosity: An Enhancement, Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. They question the Western preference for visual perception, which perpetuates a human-centric worldview. By focusing on literary synesthesia in the readings, this book emphasizes sensory experiences and human-nonhuman interactions. It adopts the concept of research as assemblage and uses a diverse range of theories and approaches, while it foregrounds critical posthumanism and new materialism. Ultimately, it advocates for a less anthropocentric approach to reading and presents literature as a \"transdisciplinary life science\" capable of fostering a \"kinship of posthumanity.\""]