TY - BOOK AU - Shackelford,Laura ED - Project Muse. TI - Tactics of the Human : : Experimental Technics in American Fiction / T2 - Digital culture books SN - 9780472900169 PY - 2014///] CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Technologie KW - Motiv KW - gnd KW - Experimentelle Literatur KW - Internetliteratur KW - Neue Medien KW - Literature and the Internet KW - fast KW - Literature and technology KW - Hypertext fiction KW - Human body and technology in literature KW - Experimental fiction, American KW - American fiction KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Media Studies KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - Roman numerique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Corps humain et technologie dans la litterature KW - Litterature et technologie KW - États-Unis KW - Roman americain KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - USA KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retracing Digital Cultures through American Fiction; 1. Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing; 2. Tracing the Human through Media Difference; 3. Realizing the Vitality of "Dead" Spaces; 4. Counting on Affect: Engaging Micropractices of the U.S. Nation; 5. Novel Diagnosis of Bioinformatic Circulation; Coda: Unfolding Technics; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Open Access N2 - "Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/39748/ ER -