Spectraltech and Shakespeare: Early Modern Literature for the Posthumanities Future.
Human critical and creative practices are increasingly enmeshed in nonhuman technologies, raising challenges for our disciplines in the context of machine-centred futures that encompass what I term here spectraltech, technological and digital capacities that feature seemingly superhuman and supernat...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 38 - 52 |
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Apr2025
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