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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kent A. Ono © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination . By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 904–907.
Published: 01 December 2017
...J. Peter Moore Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture . By Epstein Andrew . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 364 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; e-book available. The Lyric in the Age of the Brain . By Skillman Nikki...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to explicitly racialize their central invention, vividly illustrating the afterlife of slavery at the birth of America’s machine culture. 1 These quotes are from the January 14, 1868, issue of the Chicago Tribune , in a notice with the headline “An Extraordinary Invention,” itself a reprint of a notice...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
... technomodernism and postmodernism are variants of the modernist problematic of the machine: both positions configure the postwar technologization of culture through the external determination of subjectivity and the instrumentalization of the human. However they describe the distinctive dynamic of postwar...
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American Literature 10575063.
Published: 17 March 2023
...: will they gloss over the differences, or will they enact strategies that articulate the differences and explore their implications for humans immersed in algorithmic cultures? The author analyzes three contemporary novels that engage with this challenge: Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous , Kuzuo Ishiguro’s Klara...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of reacting freely and incalculably to [one’s]
external surroundings” have suddenly been replaced with “the model
of the ants” (84). But Lin does not leave his readers without hope.
The answer to these perils of machine culture, he suggests, is that the
West must begin to emulate...
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American Literature 10575176.
Published: 17 March 2023
... or be repressed by AIs. Across its history, sf has also interrogated a contemporary culture in which we might lose something integral to humanity as we become more integrated with and dependent on machines, and this anxiety too recurs across these works. After brie y describing each text, in order...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... Aesthetics as both the antidote to and the perfec-
tion of machine culture.” Assembling a diverse range of print and audiovi-
sual sources, Williams considers how Orientalist fantasies of Asian culture
permeate Western material cultures in design, print, architecture, litera-
ture, and the visual arts...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
... machine culture, and drawing on the psychoanalytical
theory of Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and others, elaborates a related account
of the relation between identification, identity, mimesis, and introjection...
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American Literature 10575021.
Published: 17 March 2023
... on the emerging eld of critical AI is perhaps intuitive this is, after all, an aesthetic engagement with ML that delights and instructs, translating machinic instrumentalization (still the bête noire of the humanities) into the lexicon of cultural critique, situating AI within intertwined genealogies...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 505–532.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is juxtaposed against the strict correspon-
dence of the second. The very lack of connection as the paper drops
off the machine between paper, process, and end use would also seem
to undermine a reading of the story that would want to make a virtue
of allegorical equivalence between story and cultural...
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American Literature 10575091.
Published: 17 March 2023
... culture and art, the people behind and in front of these machines, systems and structure that enable and maintain the machines, and the techniques and habits that go through/with the machines all nd different (sub)disciplinary UNCORRECTED PROOFS What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology? 313 Table...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2000
In 1996, when personal computers had become
household appliances rather than mysterious, behemoth machines
controlled by MIT, American culture confronted one of its deepest
fears, which had been circulating among mathematicians and science-
fiction buffs...
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American Literature 10575134.
Published: 17 March 2023
...J. D. Schnepf j.d.schnepf@rug.nl Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine . By Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2020 . viii. 280 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . Life in the Age of Drone Warfare . Edited by Lisa Parks...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of meaning might exist outside the realm of our current expectations and what cultural charges might be attached to the words we have selected. This is the practice that I hope to suggest with the Distance Machine. If word search is necessarily dependent on a body of knowledge about language...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 418–420.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., Philosophy of Mind, and Cultural Evolution . By Swirski Peter . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press . 2013 . 223 pp. Cloth , $29.95 ; e-book available . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 418 American Literature
Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. By Matthew L...
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American Literature 10575190.
Published: 17 March 2023
...Tyler Shoemaker tshoemaker@ucdavis.edu The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies . Edited by Jonathan Roberge and Michael Castelle . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan . 2021 . Xv. 289 pp. Cloth, $109.99 ; paper, $79.99 ; e-book, $75.99...
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American Literature 10575204.
Published: 17 March 2023
... via an interrogation of contemporary machine learning practices, Seb Franklin s Digitally Disposed is centrally concerned with understanding the logic of what he calls digitality. He de nes digitality not as discrete representation in general but as the cultural logic of contemporary capitalism...
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American Literature 10575260.
Published: 17 March 2023
... of such recognition as listening, such parsing as understanding, and such synthesis as speaking ? How did technology and culture combine to make this development thinkable even, apparently, desirable? Two recent scholarly books attempt to answer such questions historically. Simone Natale s Deceitful Media...
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American Literature 10575049.
Published: 17 March 2023
... to Judge the World. In The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies, edited by Jonathan Roberge and Michael Castelle, 31 78. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Mikolov, Tomas, Armand Joulin, and Marco Baroni. 2018. A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence. In Computational...
