The Production of Subjectivity in «The Diamond Age» by Neal Stephenson

ISBN-13: 9783631727263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 117 str.

Sarah Jonckheere

Opis

The book brings to light Neal Stephenson's answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. Using affect theory and its applications to literature, it explores how operations of subjectivation emerge in Neal Stephenson's technological novel "The Diamond Age".

Spis treści

The Machinic Ideological Production of Self - The Fashioned Body as an Invaded Territory - Collective Identities: The Mechanics of Living - Erasing The Pre-Personal Self: Post-Humanimality and Spectrality - The Accumulation of Affect - The Post-Cyberpunk Model: Subversion from the Inside - Deep Meaning, Deep Mining

O autorze

Sarah Jonckheere is a scholar at the University of Lille in France where she pursues a doctorate in Anglophone literature. Her work focuses on British and American literatures, literary theory, philosophy, and cinema as well as on affect theory.