Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation
With the birth of information theory and cybernetics in the late 1940s and early 1950s, writes John Johnston, a decisive step was taken toward the immense techno-scientific transformation of the world into coded bits of 'information' and machinic assemblages. Beginning with Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, the novels that have reflected this transformation have similarly assembled disparate bits of information and narrative into fictions saturated with data and transcribed clips from media such as motion pictures, television, recordings, and computer files.Realism having thus fractilized into high-speed collage, thought itself is redefi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-5705-8
- EAN: 9780801857058
- Produktnummer: 1695934
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 440 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 440
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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