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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 343–367.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Stacey Margolis This essay investigates an early instance of “network theory” in order to argue that such theories did not, as most scholars suggest, emerge exclusively in the digital age. Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn (1799–1800) attempts to theorize the information networks of the early...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Sean Silver Abstract This article positions the eighteenth‐century novel alongside contemporary developments in the modeling of complex systems, including Leonhard Euler's solution to the Königsberg bridge problem and William Hogarth's serial engravings. Unlike studies that apply network theory...
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Novel (2013) 46 (2): 253–274.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Elizabeth Outka This article takes up Rita Felski's recent call to modernists to explore how Bruno Latour's latest work on actor-network theory might be adapted for literary studies. It examines two accounts of World War I soldiers who (allegedly) return from the dead in material form: Virginia...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 442–459.
Published: 01 November 2019
... as “a theoretical description of a universe” (qtd. in McHale 27 ), Lynch considers ontology proper to be high-level theoretical work about what there is in the world. Taking Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) as a prime example in science and technology studies (STS), Lynch remarks that it might as well...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 263–282.
Published: 01 August 2022
... inhabit; nevertheless, possibilities for potentially revolutionary collective action still exist. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc. 2022 economic ecosystems postcapitalism analytical Marxism network theory It seems that there exists a curiously unexplained...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and psychological dimensions of character. Our Mutual Friend experiments with a social life transformed by the networks of physiological and evolutionary theory; it modifies the scientific network in the creative form of fiction. Victorian science used the concept of net-work to imagine the multiple kinds...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 157–175.
Published: 01 August 2017
... of theory that has been critiqued by Lauren Berlant , by affect theory) to a more recent complex of approaches to the interactions of human and nonhuman objects centered, following Bruno Latour, on the formulation of these interactions as a flat ontology or network. By placing these two theoretical...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 141–145.
Published: 01 May 2017
... serious and groundbreaking theories of the democratic public sphere” (1). More specifically, the argument is that literature, “at a particular moment in American history,” offers theories of public opinion as networks, social networks forged in and out of doors through encounters between friends...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... that is formed out of such interactions is interpreted through Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) as a set of dynamic “actants” that exercise “a kind of agency with and through their human and non-human constituents” (2). This view of the social is distinct from Fredric Jameson's symptomatic readings...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Bruno . Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory . New York : Oxford UP , 2005 . ...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 167–185.
Published: 01 May 2014
... in the title of this essay to
invoke Latour’s model of ‘‘reassembling the social According to Latour’s actor-
network theory, agency resides in networks of subjects and objects (rather than in
agential subjects—such as democratic citizen-subjects—alone), and these networks
(assemblages) constitute...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 517–523.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of the network in a way that paves the way
for recent narratives about political, technological, economic, and social networks,
including such films as Traffic, Syriana, and Babel. Network theory is emergent
across disciplines now, and it seems to me important to recognize that the humani-
ties has...
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Novel (2019) 52 (1): 44–63.
Published: 01 May 2019
... . The Entangled Eye: Visual Perception and the Representation of Nature in Post-Darwinian Narrative . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1992 . Latour Bruno . Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2005 . Lee Vernon . The Handling of Words, and Other...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 17–35.
Published: 01 May 2018
... as the basis for statistical subjectivity in the mid-Victorian era. Where critics might expect to find in Phineas Finn a political bildungsroman, we find instead a pattern of subjectivity that strikingly resembles Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, in which social actors are constituted...
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Novel (2017) 50 (3): 397–408.
Published: 01 November 2017
... alternatives. Additionally, and most vexingly, there is a marked tendency, precisely within those traditions that do value theory—and that caution against the new historicist/ Latourian Actor Network Theory replacement of capitalism with “power,” of exploitation with “discourse,” of causality...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 344–362.
Published: 01 November 2015
...-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2005 . Leon-Portillo Miguel . The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico . Trans. Kemp Lysander . New York : Beacon , 2006 . Levinas Emmanuel . “ Peace and Proximity .” Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 138–144.
Published: 01 May 2024
... be inclined to see as largely consonant with one another. Brilmyer notes that Victorian dynamic materialism shares much with, for example, actor-network theory, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology, for both Victorian dynamic materialists and contemporary new materialists begin...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 406–424.
Published: 01 November 2019
...—provides a framework for generating narrative equilibrium, see Choi . While nineteenth-century science offered a general theory for understanding physical systems, the twentieth-century iteration of systems theory sought to address a larger network of interconnected dynamics. 7 For an account...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 May 2018
... titled “Dispersion,” or, in a different way, by recent volumes on networks and participation from David Joselit and Claire Bishop. Meanwhile, amid this embarrassment of riches, amid all this activity and no doubt also due to it, recent theory appears all too often as a kind of Great Undoing...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to Actor-Network-Theory . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2005 . Levine Caroline . Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2015 . Massey Doreen . “ A Global Sense of Place .” Marxism Today , no. 38 ( 1991 ): 24 – 29 . Mufti Aamir . Forget English...
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