In the twenty-first century, the term “metadata” has appeared in the popular news press with increasing frequency. For instance, recent arguments made by proponents of mass surveillance have focused on the fact that the content of messages may be irrelevant for spy agencies; such organizations are instead more interested in knowing…
View More On the Political Aesthetics of MetadataAuthor: Martin Paul Eve
Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Project Director of the Open Library of Humanities, a member of the steering committee for JISC's OAPEN-UK project, Chief Editor of Orbit, the open-access peer-reviewed e-journal on the writings of Thomas Pynchon, and is Senior Online Editor of Alluvium.
DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War
As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of…
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In 1993, David Foster Wallace published an essay piece entitled “E Unibus Pluram” in which he outlined his belief that fiction should move away from the ‘critical and destructive’ postmodern irony that he saw as…
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