Mark Seltzer

The Official World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360865
• ISBN-10: 0822360861
• Artikelnr.: 43152972

Autorenporträt

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 .

Inhaltsangabe

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