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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... for unique diseases and display interfaces. The variations among different corpora of contagion media point to the interplay among persistent, transhistorical tropes, particular sites of meaning production, and novel technical affordances. This article will examine a subset of these representational...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 419–422.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Technical Object 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 defines digitality not as “discrete representation in general” but as “the cultural logic...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Pynchon’s A4 is counterfactual insofar as no A4s deployed during World War II featured guidance systems equipped with double-integrating accelerometers. Sources such as Moore 1949 provide technical accounts of both double-integrating accelerometers and the A4’s trajectory. Sources such as Dornberger 1954...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 423–428.
Published: 01 June 2023
... . “Learning to Execute.” By Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever . arXiv preprint. 2014 . https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4615 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This review looks at two technical papers from the field of computer science that, at the time of writing, should...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 365–379.
Published: 01 June 2023
...” is presented as an engineering one, a framing that takes as a given the ongoing development and deployment of AI systems and implies it is possible to ameliorate these technologies sufficiently through various technical improvements. The Alignment Problem provides useful background on the contemporary...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... as to facilitate a smoother and more expansive flow of more diverse labor into the infamously white and masculine technology sector—to show how “Coding Is Not Empowerment” (253); Ben Allen magisterially demonstrates how the same genre of technical hacks can be read as playful or criminal depending on power...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
... histories thus provide a very contested and difficult space that mandates new thinking about how to work within, around, and through technology and contemporary technical epistemologies. Artificial intelligence (AI) is often described as a field investigating whether machines can think. The existence...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 434–437.
Published: 01 June 2017
... such as network and information overload rework our understanding of the past. As these strange historical transfers suggest, the study of literary technologies demands more than dutiful technical histories and general philosophies of technological life. These books occupy an important, often overlooked middle...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
...) a positivist project” (12), one for which the harms of AI ultimately require technical solutions. It does so, they explain, by eliding AI’s own “sociotechnical genesis” (3), the dense mesh of decisions, practices, and technologies that entangle AI in social factors from the start. This elision makes...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... From foundational developments in the emerging field of cybernetics, Chandler finds a conceptual basis for the new emphasis on “purposeful and purposeless behaviors in order to transform the definition of machines: rather than mere tools, technical systems, like organisms, can react in response...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... the same underlying technical substrate, but as a storytelling technology with no pretensions to scientific fidelity. In this section I argue that microworlds and IF represent two interpretive frameworks for making sense of the same fundamental technologies. Consequently, when contemporary researchers...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of traditional Western technics. Karen Leong has
argued, for example, that a distinct transformation in American ori-
entalism during the 1930s produced “a romanticized, progressive, and
highly gendered image of China” that allowed figures such as Pearl
Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong to more...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 336–338.
Published: 01 June 2021
... enkindle desires and aspirations for something different, a world transfigured through technical virtuosity—the future respawned. (21) While to some extent a trite observation—that technologists and gamers, often the same people, imagine change in the world through both their technological conquests...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... associated with the digital humanities also calls
attention to the contours of the texts under analysis, in fact employing
a similarly enunciative mode. Furthermore, by virtue of their technical
nature, they similarly highlight the position of the reader and his or
her relation to the text...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 753–778.
Published: 01 December 2010
... “parts and
performances” rather than the “full[ness]” and “rich[ness]” of “life”
itself.
The technical mastery of a poetic debut was not solely a target for
derision. It could also serve as evidence of “promise”—the character-
istic critical term for the particular form of merit...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
... reading is an “ethical” practice, Gallop ( 2000 , 10) insists, threatened by an “instrumentalism that would turn the teaching of English into the mere transmission of some amoral technical ability. Close reading can make students write better, but as much as I value good writing, that is simply not enough...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... that word search raises. I hope to show that attending to the large-scale linguistic change that can be observed in Google Books—especially historical shifts in the extent to which certain words are marked as technical, foreign, or novel—can provide a new perspective on Whitman’s philological ideas, as well...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., and social knowledges are imbricated within the technical protocol of border control in the context of US capital and imperial power. Importantly, this is not about playing with or against national ideologies as if all border games must aspire to raise critical awareness of migration politics. Rather...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
... extensively against other types . Which does all sound a little on the fascistic side” (220). With these details, attentive readers can flesh out the picture: smart men who earned good salaries by solving difficult technical problems have now been replaced by algorithmic systems that perform as well...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
...), and physical-digital interfaces like telecommunication services, service providers, and electricity. This technical architecture remains out of public view, below the level of content (DeNardis 2012 : 721). But while contemporary STS scholars argue that politics existed at the level of digital and physical...
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