Databodies: Digitalising the Ustopian Spaces in Hari Kunzru's Transmission.
The present paper attempts to circumscribe Hari Kunzru's 2005 novel, Transmission, within the genre we label, following Margaret Atwood, "ustopia," defined as the intersection between the twin impulses of utopia and dystopia. Encompassing both the exhilaration and the anxieties triggered by our spee...
| Publicado en: | Caietele Echinox Vol. 27; pp. 307 - 319 |
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