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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
... given the prematurity of Nell's death, which also magnifies the fatal temporality of work. The girl's life is as short term as were her tasks. 5 In Capital , Marx explores the connection between death, time, and work in the context of industrial production and wage labor. He argues...
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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 (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 (2021) 54 (1): 140–143.
Published: 01 May 2021
...). Yet we never quite learn which ideologies are put into play here: capitalism, neoliberalism, neoconservatism on one side, and . . . ? Given the readings that follow, it might seem to be Islam, but Islam is not an ideology except in the most fevered imaginings of the Islamophobia industry. Islamism...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 343–349.
Published: 01 August 2010
... 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 in the nineteenth-century sympathetic tradition, “sparked feel-
ings of pity or empathy in middle-class readers, whose...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 479–484.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of apparently unoccupied “waste” land in Australia posed a problem for this theory, in that it rendered capital investment largely profitless and encouraged “migratory habits” as workers eschewed wage labor to take farms of their own ( 47 ). Australian settler colonialism thus created a “paradox” for stadial...
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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 (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...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 523–526.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... Such approaches to the genre
capture important elements of the fiction—its emphasis on punishing deviants and on
surveilling and ordering an urban landscape frequently envisioned as a racially foreign
wilderness. But, Cassuto suggests, those ways of viewing the genre often neglect hard-
boiled fiction’s...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 227–250.
Published: 01 August 2010
... . Capital: A Critique of Political Economy . Trans. Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin, 1976 . ———. “The English Middle Class.” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Literature and Art: A Selection of Writings . Ed. Baxandall , Lee and Stefan Morawski. New York: International, 1973 . 106 . Mayhew...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 425–441.
Published: 01 November 2019
... suggests that this ethics marks a key change within the rise of the novel that continues well into late capitalism. 4 Deidre Shauna Lynch writes, “Few readers would dispute that Burney's marriage plots unfold in a marriage market : this is the manifest, not the latent, meaning of Evelina...
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Novel (2001) 34 (3): 369–390.
Published: 01 November 2001
.... P.E. Charvet Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 . Benjamin , Walter . Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism . Trans. Harry Zohn. London: Verso, 1983 . Benjamin , Walter . The Arcades Project . Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge: Harvard UP...
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