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Issue 7.2 Previous Issues

Digitisation and the Death of the Real

Keri Thomas April 30, 2019 No Comments books cultural materialism digital digital humanities digital texts Digitisation manucript manuscripts materialities materiality physicality posthumanism posthumanities reading simulation

Keri Thomas asks: what is the Real? It is the desert left beneath our replica map of the world […]

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Issue 1.3 Previous Issues

Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism

Martin Paul Eve August 1, 2012 3 Comments 2666 American literature Ciudad Juarez crypto-didacticism David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo E Unibus Pluram ethics Falling Man fiction Gravity's Rainbow historiographic metafiction Inherent Vice Linda Hutcheon literary criticism Mason & Dixon Patricia Waugh Point Omega post-postmodernism postmodernism Ratner's Star Roberto Bolano Running Dog simulacrum simulation The Body Artist the New Sincerity The Pale King Thomas Pynchon Underworld White Noise

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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