| Description |
x, 290 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue : computing kin -- Pt. I. Making : language and code -- 1. Intermediation : textuality and the regime of computation -- 2. Speech, writing, code : three worldviews -- 3. The dream of information : escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Pt. II. Storing : print and etext -- 4. Translating media -- 5. Performative code and figurative language : Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon -- 6. Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Pt. III. Transmitting : analog and digital -- 7. (Un)masking the agent : Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" -- 8. Simulating narratives : what virtual creatures can teach us -- 9. Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation : intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue : recursion and emergence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computational intelligence.
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Human-computer interaction.
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Computers in literature.
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Virtual reality.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
2005006276 |
| ISBN |
0226321487 paperback alkaline paper |
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0226321479 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226321479 hardback |
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0226321487 paperback |
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