Description
Book SynopsisContemporary culture-or more specifically what is called postmordern techno- or cyberculture-is a restructuring process that can similarly be described: as an artifactual space created when information re-structures modern or traditional culture in order to make it a better habitat for information."
Trade ReviewMaking thoughtful use of Deleuze, Guattari, and even Baudrillard, Johnston offers a learned yet clear analysis; this volume will become indispensable to college and university collections of literary criticism. Choice
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Writing (in) the Machinic Universe
Chapter 1. The Literary Assemblage: Writing Machines and Late Capitalism
Chapter 2. Information and Mediality: The Novel as Psychic Apparatus
Part II: The Novel of Information Multiplicity
Chapter 3. Rocket-State Assemblage: Gravity's Rainbow
Chapter 4. Narration, Delirium, Machinic Consciousness: Lookout Cartridge
Chapter 5. Capitalism and Entropic Flow: JR
Part III: The Novel of Media Assemblages
Chapter 6. Fictions of the Culture Medium: The Novels of Don DeLillo
Chapter 7. An American Book of the Dead: Media and Spectral Life in Vineland
Chapter 8. The Disappearance of Media: Cyberspace in Neuromancer
Coda. "Change for the Machines": The Complexity of Bodies in Synners
Notes
Index
