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... portrays the impossibility of escaping overdevelopment through cyberspace, but it routes this impossibility through the specter of racial contamination by Caribbean hackers and Haitian gods. This racialized frontier imaginary shaped the form of internet technologies throughout the 1990s, influencing...

... varied scales of care at the level of form, by moving from individual stories that are the typical subject of literary realism to a grand vision of the webbed planetary systems—the environment, the internet, the global economy—in which they are enmeshed. This essay argues that, read through the lens...

... a number of the design elements and narrative genres that have become important to contemporary video games. Scholars like Cait McKinney have demonstrated how people living with HIV/AIDS in America played a crucial part in the evolution of internet technologies that now form the backbone of video games...

... no idea what I was getting myself into.” At the same time, writing in plain, accessible, clear, and passionate language on the Internet about race, gender, and privilege has made her a bridge between white women and women of color in uncomfortably immediate ways. As McKenzie (135) relates, “A few weeks...

... .” Understanding Digital Humanities , 1 – 20 . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Bhabha Homi K. 1994 . The Location of Culture . New York : Routledge . boyd danah Crawford Kate . 2011 . “ Six Provocations for Big Data .” Paper presented at “A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium...

...Jay Clayton Duke University Press 2002 Jay Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek’s Clayton Guide to Contemporary Literature In Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (2000), Jon Katz introduces what some might consider a rare...

... their information (Kornberg and Schafer 2022 ). See also McIntyre 2018 : 89–122. Concerning the covalence between internet usage that propagates misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, Steven Lloyd Wilson and Charles Wiysonge ( 2020 ) confirm, “the prevalence of . . . disinformation is highly statistically...

..., and the animation of the internet as a “metamedium” displace postmodern proclivities for fragmentation, pastiche, and metafiction (46). Maximal aesthetics demonstrate how the novel (as a form) is a process, not just a record; the novel is active and messy, not a static inscription or representation (72...

... poetry and a link to surrealist art, Golston reveals new approaches to the well-worn logic of symbolic form. Routinely characterized as a source of endless distraction, the Internet sets the stage for Epstein’s consideration of poetry as an instrument of attention. But rather than ask what...

... notions of individual sovereignty that define the noir villain are also central to Suzanne F. Boswell’s “‘Jack In, Young Pioneer’: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace.” Boswell demonstrates that the arrival of the internet in the United States was deeply entangled...

... in fact bought the right chicken. Throughout Blockchain Chicken Farm , Wang tracks a number of moments when internet commerce, blockchain encryption, surveillance technologies, and AI have reshaped the environments, ecologies, and economies of rural China. Summarizing Xi Jinping’s policies for rural...

... of nationhood and history through life writing; alternative histories; the media and virtuality; film as auto/biography and history; the Internet and blogs as forms of life writ- ing; theater studies and autoperformance; different auto/biographies, differ- ent histories—globalization and its discontents. Three...

... spaces like city streets and Internet message boards as well as in mass media. To read the chronocanon is to discover who chose to circulate such texts, why they (re)published certain poems when and where they did, and what these poems meant at that moment (based on what readers had to say about...

...- views and Internet chat rooms, these rumors address issues ranging from O. J. Simpson to air fresheners, from government conspiracies to Liz Claiborne’s racial politics, from the Ku Klux Klan to the Kentucky Fried Rat. Turner...

... into “The Secret Robot Internet,” having completed the “Prove you are human” chal- lenge “0.1 + 0.2 = ?” with “0.30000000000000004” (www.smbc-comics.com /?id=2999). Although humans might be in on the joke (the binary base of com- puters means some decimal numbers get rounded), it also “reveals” the secret...

... American narratives are transnationally “refracted” (33) through technologies of “the smart phone, the Internet, and even the microcomputer” (10), thereby countering an older missionary approach that used to explicate the virtues of US culture for the benefit of foreign audiences. Instead, Edwards...

... of synecdoche in the privileging of charismatic megafauna, the “paradigmatic” approach of animal rights discourse versus the “syntagmatic” logic of environmentalism, the variously “centripetal” and “centrifugal” impulses of the internet, and the “numerical sublime” of the catalog. Although epic, elegy...

... enabling connection or highlighting disconnection, and it is a common theme among these volumes that cultural reactions to nineteenth-century technological innovations resemble responses to the Internet in our own day. Perhaps it is inevitable that contemporary experiences with the Web and other...

... that “the field of textual production has broadened to include radio, cinema, television, and, perhaps most dramatically in its impact, the Internet” (3). In Thinking Outside the Book, she transforms well-known “key concepts” in literary studies (“literacy, authorship, publication, edition, and editor...

.... The Internet, Vanderborg observes, exacerbates this phenomenon, which she sees reflected in increasing ambivalence about the types of communities that paratexts address, as well as a skepticism toward the notion of an American...