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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 (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Gary Hall What forms will literary and cultural criticism take in the twenty-first century, given the move toward open access, open data, and open government that is currently being promoted in the name of greater efficiency and transparency? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Aarthi Vadde Enumerations: Data and Literary Study . By Andrew Piper . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2018 . xiii, 243. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication . By Brian Lennon . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
Published: 01 December 2016
... through rapid-scanning technology, captured the enormity of the storm, its dynamic cloud structure, and the sharpening of the storm’s eye as the continent dimmed under the setting sun. But despite the complicated process of data gathering and transmission that is involved in meteorological satellite...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . Data / Set / Match [exhibition]. London : Photographers’ Gallery , 2019–20 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The advent of what business strategists are fond of calling the “Cambrian explosion” in artificial intelligence (AI) has spawned a legion of concerns about...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . Theft Is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory. Durham , NC: Duke Univ. Press . O’Neil Cathy . 2016 . Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy . New York : Crown . Wynter Sylvia . 1981 . “ In Quest of Matthew Bondsman: Some...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Katherine D. Johnston Abstract This essay analyzes increasingly ubiquitous data collection and posits that metafiction is especially well suited to grapple with the significance of metadata and data surveillance, given its own preoccupation with watching itself watch. Making a critical intervention...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., audio playback, and visual culture—early magnetic recording materialized. In so doing, the essay offers scholars of both new and old media a sense of how we might better historicize the ostensible permanence and immateriality of contemporary data cultures and their digital economies. “Making the Perfect...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., Wells pushed mere counting past itself to a profound mode of ethical accounting. Two of her contemporaries, Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois, sustained a similarly supraquantitative thrust; each attempted to harness the antilynching potential of numbers by enlisting data visualization. Twain falls short...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... invites a closer examination of the relationship between word and world in AI research. The author argues for a reading of microworlds research and of AI more broadly through the lens of literary realism and through the literary texts that comprise its data sets and from which researchers expect...
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Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 2 Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden: Our Stories Are Algorithms . Installation view, On Love and Data exhibition, Stamps Gallery, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, August 31 to October 23, 2021. Photograph: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Technological Futures . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Bassett Caroline . Forthcoming. “ Cruel Optimism: Thinking AI through Lauren Berlant .” In Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines , edited by Browne Jude , Cave Stephen , Drage Eleanor...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Anwuli and her child from the worst of the pollen storm, able to learn and adapt to the changing situation. It filters both pollen and information, sifting through data and shutting out the harmful peri grass. Okorafor’s story animates the intimacies between AI and ecology in a variety of important...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... London : Goldsmiths Press . 2020 . 124 pp. Paper, $25.95 ; e-book, $19.99 . Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data . Edited by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup , Daniela Agostinho , Annie Ring , Catherine D’Ignazio , and Kristin Veel . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . 2021...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Jessica Hurley Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 . By Halpern Orit . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . ix, 342 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper, $27.95 . The Way Things Go: An Essay on the Matter of Second Modernism . By Jaffe Aaron . Minneapolis...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 615–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
... , 83 – 110 . New York : Harcourt, Brace and World . Burdick Anne . 2012 . Digital_Humanities . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gitelman Lisa . 2006 . Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture . Cambridge : MIT Press . Gold Matthew K. , ed. 2012...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
...: Contemporary Narratives of Ameri-
can Jewishness, 197–99.
Grausam, Daniel. Review Essay: “The Way We Talk Now about the Way
They Were Then: Recent Work on the ‘Contemporary 389–98.
Hall, Gary. “Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the
Computational Turn to Data-Driven...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as “an evolving collective poem generator created by Google Arts and Culture’s Ross Goodwin and artist, Es Devlin.” The AI is able to implement a creative writing algorithm trained on data consisting of 20 million words from nineteenth-century poetry. One pauses, however, at the goals of art entertainment apps...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 June 2023
... 2 , no. 9 : 100314 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100314 . Lewis Blu , Gangadharan Seeta Peña , Saba Mariella , and Petty Tawana . 2018 . Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data . Detroit : Our Data Bodies . Available at https...
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