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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shackelford, Laura.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction, American.

Literature and the Internet--United States.

Literature and the Internet.

Hypertext fiction--History and criticism.

Hypertext fiction.

Human body and technology in literature.

Literature and technology--United States.

Literature and technology.

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing 28

2 Tracing the Human through Media Difference 57

3 Realizing the Vitality of "Dead" Spaces 95

4 Counting on Affect: Engaging Micro practices of the U.S. Nation 143

5 Novel Diagnosis of Bioinformatic Circulation 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472120680

0472120689

9780472072385

9780472052387

0472072382

Publisher Number:

10.3998/dcbooks.12672514.0001.001

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.