Modernist Informatics - Literature, Information, and the State

Informationen zum Autor James Purdon is a Research Fellow in English Literature at Cambridge University. Klappentext Modernist Informatics traces the effects of an infomation culture in the early twentieth-century, where experimental approaches to narrative and to subjectivity began to compete with government archives for the right to represent the citizens of the modern security state. Zusammenfassung Modernist Informatics traces the effects of an infomation culture in the early twentieth-century, where experimental approaches to narrative and to subjectivity began to compete with government archives for the right to represent the citizens of the modern security state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Government of Information 1 / Secret Agents, Official Secrets Inspector Heat's Postal Power - Korzeniowski's Dead Letter Box - Insecurity - Inside Knowledge 2 / Dossier Fiction Abwehr's Looking at You, Kid - Ford's Forms - Black books, black markets - Papers, please - Thrillers 3 / Information Collectives The national point of view - a mass of unrelated facts - THIS LITTLE OLD E. OF OURS - Connectivity and Collectivity - paper of all kinds broadcast everywhere 4 / Public Information Information Film - Utility Aesthetics - A Pattern of Thought and Feeling - Informatic Voices 5 / Information Blacked Out In the gloaming - Keep it Dark - Keep mum - Frankie's Papers, Bowen's Notes - Between the Lines Coda: Information Machines

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: James Purdon, James (Research Fellow Purdon, Purdon James
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9780190211691
• ISBN: 978-0-19-021169-1
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Scienze della comunicazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Communication Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000