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Book SynopsisHorror Culture in the New Millennium: Digital Dissonance and Technohorror explores the myriad ways in which technology is altering the human experience as articulated in horrific storytelling. The text surveys a variety of emerging trends and story forms in the field, through both a series of critical essays and personal interviews with scholars, editors, authors, and artists now creating and refining horror stories in the new millennium.The project posits a rationale for the presence of technohorror as a defining concern in contemporary horror literature, marking a departure from the monstrous and spectral traditions of the twentieth century in its depictions of frightful narratives marked by the qualities of plausibility, mundanity, and surprise as we tell stories about what it means to be human.As our culture explores the dichotomies of the born/made, natural/artificial, and human/computerall while subsumed within a paradigm shift predicated on the transition from the traditions of
Trade ReviewDaniel Powell shows us that the fear of the darkest part of the forest has been transformed into fear of the shadows on the digital frontier. In the concept of “technohorror,” he explores how social media and netlore have become nests for new monsters. After reading his book, you may be afraid of looking to long into your computer screen.” -- W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Nature of Technohorror Chapter 2: Pioneering Platforms: Imagination, Invention, and Innovation in Horror Cultures Chapter 3: From Folklore to Netlore: Esoteric Digital Cultures and Remediation of Horrific Folk Narratives Chapter 4: Transcendence in Technohorror: Digital Dissonance and the Denatured Human Chapter 5: Technohorror and the Human Condition: Searching for Meaning in a Rapidly Changing Culture Chapter 6: Programming Nightmares: Technohorror and Life in the Twenty-First Century
