Collecting Lives : Critical Data Narrative As Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures
On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms draw from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to obje...
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University of Michigan Press
2022
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