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Zusatztext Through wide-ranging exploration of the theme of loneliness in neuroscience, informatics, biopolitics, education, arts, and popular culture, and by bringing in various texts of philosophy, religion, sociology, and literature from the East and West over different periods, Michael O'Sullivan demonstrates in Cloneliness: On the Reproduction of Loneliness how the concept of loneliness has changed, how people have struggled with the fatal condition as human beings, and how in a similar vein people nowadays are urged to be lonely and forced to inwardly connect with each other in an algorithmically controlled environment of education, career, and everyday life rooted in cyberspace. Cloneliness makes a significant contribution to the humanities in a digital global society, especially with its critique of education today. Informationen zum Autor Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief (2006). Vorwort Examines how loneliness—in an age of social networks, biopolitical capital, the rankings knowledge economy, and rising inequality—necessitates, and gives rise to, cloneliness (the reproduction of loneliness) in different societies through diverse cultural and institutional practices. Zusammenfassung Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context of more recent global expressions grounded in social networks, virtual reality, the biopolitical commons, academic credentialization and such practices as Hikikomori . Newer forms of loneliness, pushed by the algorithms of biopolitical capitalism, result in what this books calls "cloneliness." Michael O'Sullivan plots the transformation in loneliness in literature and philosophy in readings that take us from Henry James and such classic works as Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice and Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness to more recent expressions in such writers as David Foster Wallace, Yiyun Li, and Sayaka Murata.Michael O’Sullivan argues that cloneliness as an institutional practice of reproduction in society nurtures, normalizes, and reproduces loneliness in order to create subjects who are more willing to accept ideologies of competition, “extreme individualism,” and the stresses of being "interconnected loners." Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Radical Embodied Cognitive Loneliness2. Loneliness as Method: Henry James and the “Essential Loneliness” of Artistic Practice 3. The “Lonely Voice” and “Submerged Population” in O’Connor, Joyce, and Mansfield: How Can We Live “Alone Together”? 4. Loneliness Is Part of the Job: “Sentimental Loneliness” in Carson McCullers and Richard Yates 5. Beating University Loneliness and Workplace Boredom: David Foster Wallace on "How to Keep Yourself Open to a Moment of the Most Supernal Beauty"6. Loneliness in a Selection of Japanese Philosophy and Fiction: Doi, Soseki, Nishida, Murakami, Murata [Section on Shintoism by Raphael Wung Cheong Chim]7. Filial Piety and Loneliness in a Selection of Chinese Novels: Cao Xueqin, Mo Yan, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin, Yiyun Li 8. “I Am Trash”: How Student Stress and Self-Stratification Is Creating a Generation of “Interconnected Loners” [with Flora Ka Yi Mak]9. An Erotics of Loneliness Notes BibliographyIndex ...
