Rewiring The Real

In Conversation With William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, And Don Delillo

by Mark C. Taylor
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, January of 2013 ‧
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Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who thoroughly explore this phenomenon in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.

Rewiring The Real

In Conversation With William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, And Don Delillo

by Mark C. Taylor

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231160407
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January of 2013
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Format: Book
Collection: Religion, Culture And Public Life
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780231160407

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