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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 (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... and differential integration, is to yield the data upon which various algorithmic processes operate. Or, the situations of the people from whose “free” activities data is extracted, and upon whose “free” lives the resultant algorithmic processes come to bear, are structurally determined by the processes...
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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 (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 (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Laura Soderberg Abstract The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt...
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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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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 (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 (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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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): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... individuals possess.” When situated within Hayek’s engagements with the sciences and technologies of the time, this statement gestures to a grand aspiration: a fervent dream for a new world governed by data. At the heart of Hayek’s conception of a market was the idea that no single subject, mind, or central...
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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
...Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal 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 . 640 pp. Paper, $55.00 ; e-book, $38.99...
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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
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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
... critics are concerned that “database will replace narrative to the extent narrative fades from the scene” as data, replacing classical Greek- and Roman-era narrative’s explanatory force in understanding world events, becomes essential in identifying large-scale phenomena. The problem is not with natural...
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