Information multiplicity : American fiction in the age of media saturation / John Johnston.
Information multiplicity : American fiction in the age of media saturation / John Johnston.
Information multiplicity : American fiction in the age of media saturation / John Johnston.
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
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1998.
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N813.5409356/2
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English
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x, 307 p. ; 24 cm.
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Pt. I. Writing (in) the Machinic Universe. 1. The Literary Assemblage: Writing Machines and Late Capitalism. 2. Information and Mediality: The Novel as Psychic Apparatus -- Pt. II. The Novel of Information Multiplicity. 3. Rocket-State Assemblage: Gravity's Rainbow. 4. Narration, Delirium, Machinic...
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Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
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Maryland
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1998.
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In Information Multiplicity, Johnston describes how fractalized realism has redefined thought itself - from the High Modernist "stream of consciousness" into what the machine philosopher Daniel Dennett refers to as "multiple drafts" or "circuits" operating concurrently in the human brain. In a series of close readings, Johnston traces how such a vi...
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Information multiplicity : American fiction in the age of media saturation / John Johnston.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-296) and index.
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N813.5409356/2
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0801857058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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0801857058 (pbk.)
9780801857058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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813.5409356
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