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Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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Contemporary American Fiction in the Embrace of the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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This collection aims to examine the relationship between American
fiction and innovations that marked the first decades of the 21st
century: the Internet, social media, smart objects and
environments, artificial intelligence, nanotechnologies, genetic
engineering and other biotechnologies, transhumanism. These
technological innovations redefine the way we live in and imagine
our world, interact with each other and understand the human being
in his or her ever closer relationship to the machine a human being
no longer, as in the past, cared for or repaired, but now enhanced
or replaced. What about our artistic and cultural practices? Are
these recent advances changing language and literature? How is
fiction transformed by technological progress and what
representations of progress can it oppose? Can fiction offer a
critique of the new media and the upheavals they precipitate? How
does the temporality of literature respond to a technical time
subjected to the imperative of efficiency, where the present is a
slave to the future? Do virtual worlds challenge the primacy of
literary fiction as a privileged mode of escape from daily life? In
a context where software can generate literary works, can the force
of poetical advent still oppose algorithmic logics? What becomes of
the body in a world in which its technical extensions increase the
externalization of its cognitive functions in media artifacts and
digital networks? In order to explore these questions, scholars
here investigate the American fiction of Russel Banks, Don DeLillo,
David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Tao Lin, Richard Powers,
Kenneth Goldsmith, Jennifer Egan or Jonathan Franzen as well as the
Cyberpunk genre and the Neuronovel.
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