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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...
View articletitled, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and <span class="search-highlight">Machines</span>: Science Fiction and the <span class="search-highlight">Cultures</span> of Science in the Nineteenth Century; American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 904–907.
Published: 01 December 2017
... poetics that he helped found in the early 1980s. Overall, the book continues the work of Bernstein’s long, influential career, questioning the official narrative of verse culture while advocating for a broader consideration of the radical politics, international connections, and spirited debates that fill...
View articletitled, Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and <span class="search-highlight">Culture</span> The Lyric in the Age of the Brain Poetic <span class="search-highlight">Machinations</span>: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form Pitch of Poetry
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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. Blackness and technology were already conflated prior to 1868, especially in the realm of popular culture. In part, this is a legacy of racialized slavery, which saw...
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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 (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 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 (2017), 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 (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... their machinic culture function as much like an organic ecosystem as possible. They do not repair failing robots from the factories but repurpose their parts into new generations with new purposes and ideals, desiring to exist in an organic cycle through which all that lives breaks down into component parts...
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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 (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., but also attend upon and mutually inform each other is evident in both the title and the contents of Jonathan Roberge and Michael Castelle’s ( 2021 ) edited collection, The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies . If for Mackenzie ( 2017 : 22) a central research question...
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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 (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Audience Objects of Study Fellow Disciplinarians Scholars from Other Disciplines Public Machines and devices Sciences and engineering Technocritical approaches (circa 2023) Popular technology writing Culture and art New media art and cultural studies Artistic public...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the disappearance of the body and surrogate labor, on the other—we get closer to a historical and cultural account of how we have arrived at the term intelligent to describe the senseless weapons of contemporary warfare. In Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (2020), Katherine...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
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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 (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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, the question arises: where does this knowledge come from? The idea...
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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...
View articletitled, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History from Literature to Biterature: Lem, Turing, Darwin, and Explorations in Computer Literature, Philosophy of Mind, and <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Evolution
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 439–443.
Published: 01 June 2023
... 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 focuses on how we came to treat machines as social agents capable of conversation...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... in Fallout .” Game Studies 18 , no. 2 . http://gamestudies.org/1802/articles/mcclancy . Mendon-Plasek Aaron . 2021 . “ Mechanized Significance and Machine Learning: Why It Became Thinkable and Preferable to Teach Machines to Judge the World .” In The Cultural Life of Machine Learning...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2023
...R. Joshua Scannell [email protected] The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being . By Ramon Amaro . Berlin : Sternberg Press . 2023 . 152 pp. Paper, $25.00 . The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
... to bring this or the many other social entanglements of AI/ML into view, both Data / Set / Match and The Cultural Life of Machine Learning provide—and themselves serve as—vital context for future inquiry. A shared strategy among the exhibiting artists is superimposition. In Tunnel Vision , Philipp...
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