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The Data of Life and the Life of Data
Epistemological and Aesthetic Liminality at the Fin de Siècle
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James Dorson
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgments 7
- Borderlands of Narrativity 9
- Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics 25
- The Data of Life and the Life of Data 41
- The Potentialities of Data 57
- Unnecessary Complications? 71
- Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption Videogames 85
- Detecting Liminality 99
- “To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1” 113
- Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar 129
- The Poetics and Politics of Staring 143
- “No Show Dissed Quite Like This One” 157
- Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital 171
- Home Front Autobiographies of the ‘War on Terror’ 187
- Form and/in Modernity 203
- Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons 217
- Narrating Authorship 233
- Endings and Sustainability 249
- Contributors 263
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter 1
- Contents 5
- Acknowledgments 7
- Borderlands of Narrativity 9
- Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics 25
- The Data of Life and the Life of Data 41
- The Potentialities of Data 57
- Unnecessary Complications? 71
- Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption Videogames 85
- Detecting Liminality 99
- “To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1” 113
- Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar 129
- The Poetics and Politics of Staring 143
- “No Show Dissed Quite Like This One” 157
- Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital 171
- Home Front Autobiographies of the ‘War on Terror’ 187
- Form and/in Modernity 203
- Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons 217
- Narrating Authorship 233
- Endings and Sustainability 249
- Contributors 263
