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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
...James Draney Abstract How do novels come to terms with the social and economic structures engendered by big data and surveillance capitalism? This question weighs heavily on J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year (2007) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015), two novels whose intellectual protagonists...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 427–443.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., influential definition of “surveillance capitalism.” In Red Moon the new technology is less central to the plot and is capable of working for both the good guys and the bad. This relegation of technology as period marker reflects the novel's positioning of the contemporary moment—as it blurs into the near...
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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... historically constructed itself. He focuses on novels by J. M. Coetzee and Tom McCarthy to think through the ways in which fiction grapples with the economic and social forces created by surveillance capitalism and big data, as diagnosed recently by writers such as Shoshanna Zuboff and Antoinette Rouvroy...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 226–249.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the material and formal processes that mediate our moment of fading geopolitical hegemony: the way of seeing proper to our drone era. The essay reads artworks about surveillance by multimedia artist Trevor Paglen; bestselling thrillers about drone war by Mike Maden and others; and technofetishistic novels...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 485–489.
Published: 01 November 2020
... model of surveillance (1791), doubly exercised by the British Empire and by the Roman Catholic Church. Stephen can only feel “imprisoned by the self-perpetuating nightmare of surveillance itself” (83); it is therefore in his own head that he “must kill the priest and the king.” Sicker insists on making...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 240–262.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Illinois UP , 1970 . 65 – 94 . Kotsko Adam . Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2018 . “ Labour: Gig Economy Workers Trapped in Dickensian Conditions .” Belfast Telegraph 17 Dec. 2018 < https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 481–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Seb Franklin Works Cited Agre Philip E. “ Surveillance and Capture: Two Models of Privacy .” Information Society 10 . 2 ( 1993 ): 101 – 27 . Google for Developers . “ Machine Learning: Collaborative Filtering .” < https://developers.google.com/machine-learning...
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Novel (2001) 35 (1): 125–127.
Published: 01 May 2001
... excellent Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Liferay Man manages to attend to the exam's double nature as both the most mcd em of educational toobits utility as a mechanism of surveillance and discipline, its abil- ity to translate knowledge into exchange value--and the most...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 47–66.
Published: 01 May 2011
... : New press , 2000 . Benjamin Walter . Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism . Trans. Zohn Harry . London : Verso , 1983 . Buzard James . Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels . Princeton : Princeton...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): 231–257.
Published: 01 November 2002
...: Macmillan, 1978 . Harvey , David . The Limits to Capital . New York: Verso, 1999 . Harvey , David . The Urban Experience . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989 . Kelley , Robin D.G. “Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved My Head.” Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 86–111.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of the interpretive anxiety surrounding the visual realm. Thus, rather than considering the full range of visual experience and its structural and psychologi- cal function within the text, Villeifds critics tend to focus on modes of vision (spying, voyeurism, surveillance) that produce rather than disrupt...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 204–225.
Published: 01 August 2024
... construct—worlds of generic possibility, engendering the relational comparison, combination, and transformation that disclose alternative possibilities. In Archaeologies of the Future , Jameson notes the uses of utopian thought (“and other science fictions”) to critique both the system of capitalism...
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Novel (2023) 56 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2023
... on the reader, pulling them into its deeply textured and detailed readings and asking for sustained attention to its cumulative logic. Police endure. From around 1660 to the book's endpoint in the early 1800s, policing implicates itself deeply in the racialized world made by capital. Its anticipatory...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 44–66.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of surveillance organizations that formed in response to domestic and foreign political and ideological threats to Britain. Greene capitalizes on the myth of Le Queux's influence and exploits this incongruity so he can encode his narrative with subverted genre conventions. 9 The attendant epistemological...
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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2021
... as a descriptor of a vision that calls for more specific engagement with literary and cultural production across the world and of the work of the translator of Mahasweta Devi's “Draupadi”—that brilliant story about the state's relation of surveillance and torture with the revolutionary, female body, a “local...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., the viewing protocols of scrutiny dissected the social world to better supervise and control it, thus defusing the threat of poverty by subjecting the poor to fantasies of surveillance. Also drawn to the suffering bodies of the poor and disempowered, the discourse of sentiment, which peaked in America...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
...–1939 —settler colonialism provides a key to understanding the transformative impact of capitalism on a global scale. Steer's book, read against its scholarly context, represents both the field's success in asserting the world-historical significance of the settler frontier, and a critique...
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Novel (2022) 55 (2): 339–359.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of revolutionary anti-capitalism. The Old Drift enacts, I will suggest, an important alternative to the epistemological enclosure foreseen in Abrahams's much earlier novel. Serpell's novel leverages the critical capacity of the historical, genealogical novel to evade the analytical impediments produced...
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Novel (2024) 57 (2): 287–292.
Published: 01 August 2024
... emphasize “the contradictions of settler colonialism” (139) and portray settler violence as “foundational to modernity because it was a necessary component of settler capitalism,” involving both the acquisition of land and the exploitation of indigenous labor (142). While liberal ideologies celebrating...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 432–439.
Published: 01 November 2000
... of the twentieth century, American women formulated a style of detective fiction that drew on the moral force of the domestic novel and the symbolic language of the gothic mode to critique the gender and class politics of maturing capitalism" (197). As proof of her claim, Nickerson provides...