New media and technoscience fictions: Affect, speed, and control.
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Title
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New media and technoscience fictions: Affect, speed, and control.
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Identifier
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AAI3187372
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identifier
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3187372
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Creator
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Bianco, Jamie (Skye).
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Contributor
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Advisers: Peter Hitchcock | Patricia T. Clough
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Modern | Language, Rhetoric and Composition | History of Science
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Abstract
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After information theory and cybernetics, "technoscience" and "new media" emerged as fields in literary, critical and cultural discourses and media studies. Linking aesthetics of networked information and computer interfacing, literary studies finds itself both capturing and captured by the scientific methods of coding, programming, logic, and inorganic and organic affectivity. To scan these emergent aesthetics of new mediated and technoscientific cultural affectivity, speed and control, this work explores late 20th century new media and technoscience fictions: virtual philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Brian Massumi, and Patricia Clough; "Afrofuturist" novels Dhalgren by Samuel Delany and Dawn by Octavia Butler; Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead as "techno-nativist" literature reading Achilles Mbembe's "Necropolitics" and Chela Sandoval's "Methodology of the Oppressed"; GenX trans-cyberpunk novels Survivor by Chuck Patahniuk and Dead Girls by Richard Calder; and the "techno-cinematics" of Tom Tykwer's Lola Rennt, Christopher Nolan's Memento, and Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.;New media and technoscience create arrangements of time, space, power, matter, bodies, affect, and speeds subject to control. What began as a critical and rhetorical analysis of the cultural engagements of several U.S. communities that have been marginalized by some nexus of historical hegemonic power with the practices, effects, processes and affects of various technoscientific and new media encounters, extends the critical discussions of cultural studies, U.S. ethnic studies, feminist science and technology studies, new and integrated digital media, and the sociology of science. Responding to discourses casting media, science and technology in unqualified opposition to politically progressive narratives, this project demonstrates that productions of new media and technocultural expressions from within by-passed communities offer provocative negotiations that function beyond Internet organizing and have increased political and cultural complexities.;The technics of affect are powerful, and this work reads affective cultural engagements of critical and reconstructive analyses with new media, science and technology, particularly within cultures wherein the encounter offers an expressive provocation or opens up tendencies toward cultural, economic, political, historical and social justice. This interpretive elaboration of materialist, non-hegemonic critique of new media and technoscientific fictions pursues the ethological question of a black box, "What can a new mediated or technoscientific textual body do or make?"
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
