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The Digital Condition
Rob Wilkie
Each generation of scholars produces a book that remaps the state of knowledge. Rob Wilkie's The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network is the book of a new generation of cultural theorists who grew up under digital conditions and now is redrawing the boundaries of digital cultural analysis. In a wide ranging study of cultural texts and situations—from William Gibson's novels and the iPad, to... -
Ghost-Watching American Modernity
María del Pilar Blanco
In Ghost-Watching American Modernity, María del Pilar Blanco revisits nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from Spanish America and the United States to ask how different landscapes are represented as haunted sites. Moving from foundational fictions to Westerns, Blanco explores the diverse ways in which ghosts and haunting emerge across the American hemisphere for authors who are preoccupied with evoking the... -
Time Travel
David Wittenberg
Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling, and by extension about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity, are represented in the form of literal devices and plots.
Better Off Dead
The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-HumanEdited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro
"The borderlands between biology and sociology, between natural history and history, between life and forms of life, are the territory of a new field to be named later . . . This innovative collection of essays on the zombie phenomenon maps that territory in high relief. Not least in that horror stories literalize our ways of thinking and feeling, and realize them out there in world . . . In the wake of these compelling accounts of life and afterlife in our wound culture, there’s new hope for the dead."
-Mark Seltzer, University of California, Los Angeles
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March 20, 2013
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Scare Tactics
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Between the end of the Civil War and roughly 1930, hundreds of uncanny tales were published by women. These include stories by familiar figures such as Edith Wharton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charlotte PerkinsGilman, as well as by authors almost wholly unknown to twenty-firstcentury readers, such as Josephine Dodge Bacon, Alice Brown, Emma Frances Dawson, and Harriet Prescott Spofford.Scare Tactics analyzes this...