02289cam a2200289 i 4500 140903s2014 miu b s001 0 eng 9780472072385 9780472052387 SDU PS374 S119 T 2014 Shackelford, Laura. Tactics of the human : experimental technics in American fiction / Laura Shackelford. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014 265 p. HKBU Library "Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"-- American fiction History and criticism. 124496 Literature and technology United States. Human body and technology in literature. Hypertext fiction History and criticism. Literature and the Internet United States. 198079 Experimental fiction, American History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. 203882 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112354 112354 0 0 lcc 0 PS0374 S119 T2014 0 CGB 285432 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-11-04 2 0 PS374 S119 T 2014 1000373301 2025-11-04 00:00:00 C.1 2025-11-04 GBE