James Purdon

Modernist Informatics

Literature, Information, and the State

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190211691
• ISBN-10: 0190211695
• Artikelnr.: 47863555

Autorenporträt

James Purdon is a Research Fellow in English Literature at Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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