Seltzer The Official World

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

In The Official World Mark Seltzer analyzes the suspense fiction, films, and performance art of Patricia Highsmith, Tom McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, J.G. Ballard, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others to demonstrate that the modern world continuously establishes itself through the staging of its own conditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seltzer, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The Daily Planet

1. Introduction to the Official World 3

2. Brecht's Rabbit: The Anthropotechnics of Suspense 25

Part II. Stationary Carousels and Chain Letters: The Ego-Technic Media of the Official World

3. "The Proper Study of Interaction" 47

4. Chain Letters 61

Part III. "Social Games": Playing Our Part in the Systems Epoch

5. Parlor Games 83

6. The Natural History of Artificial Life 109

Part IV. Suspended Worlds: Men in Self-Curved Space

7. The Wall of the World 127

8. Marching in Files 142

Part V. News from the Outside

9. The Turn Turn 163

10. A Postscript on the Official World 178

Acknowledgments 199

Notes 201

Bibliography 261

Index 275

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Seltzer is Evan Frankel Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of several books, including Bodies and Machines and Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture.