Tactics of the Human : Experimental Technics in American Fiction
Tactics of the Human returns to American fiction published during the 1990s, formative years for digital cultures, to reconsider these narratives'comparative literary print methods of critically engaging with digital technologies and their now ubiquitous computation-based modes of circulation, scene...
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University of Michigan Press
2014
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