Henry Sussman

Playful Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

Digitizing Tradition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary and philosophical theory. Chapters alternate between theory and readings of literary texts, resulting in a broad but rigorously grounded framework for the relation between literature and computer science. This book is a refreshing perspective on the analog-orientated tradition of theory in the humanities - and offers the first literary-textual genealogy of the digital.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472568847
• Artikelnr.: 41336907

Autorenporträt

Henry Sussman retired in 2017 as Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Yale University, USA, after a 45-year teaching career. He is the author of 11 books, including Around the Book (2011), The Aesthetic Contract (2007), Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology and Culture (1993), and High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy (1989). He has edited five volumes, including Acts of Narrative, co-edited with Carol Jacobs (2003). He is the founder and co-editor of the curated, theory-driven weblog, Feedback (www.openhumanitiespress.org/feedback). Professor Sussman is currently Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Reading Kandinsky
2. From The Brothers K. to Joseph K.: The Digitization of Literature
3. The Calculable, the Incalculable and the Rest: Kafka's Virtual
Environment
4. Urban Introjections: Berlin Alexanderplatz
5. Theory on the Fly: Critical Synthesis under Conditions of Material
Pirating and Borrowed Time
6. Playful Healing: The Transitions of D. W. Winnicott
7. The Figure in the Network: Douglas Hofstadter and the Ethics of
Intelligence
8. The Phenomenology of Jetlag
Afterword: Healing, Systematically
Notes and References
Index