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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
... methodologies adopted from computer science to help us analyze the vast, networked nature of knowledge and information in postindustrial society produce a major change in our understanding of literature and culture, and indeed the humanities? Some have suggested that we have already embarked on a post...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2023
... for the centrality of race and racialization to both the social organization of our digitalized societies and the technical apparatuses of computation. This is a welcome development since for decades critical digital studies has developed a robust tradition of analyzing digitality and computational culture from...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
... “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This review looks at two technical papers from the field of computer science that, at the time of writing, should...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
... at a scientific understanding of language. For computationally minded linguists, the stakes of NLG were scientific, with a rigorous sense of prediction, verification, and repeatability. As Garvin explained, “In machine translation it can be said that the computer program allows us to verify a linguistic...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 439–443.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Christopher Grobe [email protected] Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test . By Simone Natale . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2021 . x, 191 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book, $19.99 . The Computer’s Voice: From “Star...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Victoria Szabo Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History . By Jockers Matthew L. . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2013 . x , 192 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper , $30.00 . From Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 434–437.
Published: 01 June 2017
... narrative structures of that era and our own. In each book, technology provides a figure for understanding literary objects and their social contexts. A skeuomorphism emerges: predigital figures such as writing and book shape our ideas about new media, and in turn computer-oriented figures...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 833–857.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Martha Nell Smith Duke University Press 2002 Martha Computing: What’s American Literary Study Nell Got to Do with IT? Smith Two encounters, five years apart, inspired the ques- tion in my essay’s title. The first one occurred in spring 1995, when...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 815–816.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Steve Anderson Anderson’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Chaos and Control: The Critique of Computation in American Commercial Media (1950-1980),” which examines the critiques of computing culture posed by TV and movies during the mainframe computer age by looking closely...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 June 2020
... past, present, and future issues of the magazine and, therefore, evoke a temporality that exceeds the critical capacities of close reading. To address how editors, readers, and authors responded to each other over time, I combine close reading with topic modeling, a method of computational text...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that derive from the fields of computational linguistics and data visualization—can further illuminate these mysteries. It also describes how the unique demands of the archive of slavery pose challenges to the field of digital humanities as it is currently conceived. By contrasting a set of visualizations...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Evan Donahue Abstract Early in the history of the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a paradigm known as microworlds emerged in which researchers constructed computer simulations of aspects of the real world from which their nascent AI systems could learn. Although microworlds were ultimately...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
...D. Quentin Miller Duke University Press 2005 D. Quentin Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Miller Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth- Century American Novel ‘‘In a Battle of Wits, Your Computer Will Always Win...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
... In Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation , computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum asserts the existence of two distinct modes of human thought: intuition and logic. Intuitive thought is generative in ways that logical thought can never be because intuition holds itself to less rigorous...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Computers on Society and Ethics: A Bibliography . Morristown, NJ : Creative Computing Press . Agre Philip E. 1997a . Computation and Human Experience . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . Agre Philip E. 1997b . “ Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2002
... creature: a teenage computer hacker who reads literature. Katz’s non- fiction bestseller follows two working-class kids who achieve success because of their technological savvy. They are members of an ever- growing group, whose mastery of computers has suddenly made them, in Katz’s words, ‘‘culturally...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of this, so what do we do now? What kind of technologies do we need, then? What designs must we envision?” May this be technology critique 2.0 (cf. Irr 2020 ). Taking a lead from Noah Wardrip-Fruin—who in his brilliant contribution to Your Computer Is on Fire titled “You Can’t Make Games about Much...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... concerning AI. However, the popular understanding of machine thought as an imitation of human or animal cognition should be surpassed. We should study whether computational processes might be modes of thought by virtue of what computing machines are and do (for example, as a result of their axiomatic, logico...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2022
... .” In Writing and Difference , translated by Bass Alan . New York : Routledge . Eskelinen Markku . 2001 . “ The Gaming Situation .” Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research 1 , no. 1 . http://gamestudies.org/0101/eskelinen/ . Everett Anna . 2009...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... technologies on human populations. Blockchain Chicken Farm should prompt us to ask how those in rural environments are adapting AI technologies for their own uses at the same time as those same technologies are reshaping ecological relationships and foodways. A City Is Not a Computer reminds us to examine...