Modernist informatics : literature, information, and the state
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Modernist informatics : literature, information, and the state
（Modernist literature & culture / Kevin J.H. Dettmar & Masrk Wollaeger, series editors, 25）
Oxford University Press, c2016
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Between steam and cybernetics lies a missing phase in the history of information culture. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, national governments and writers of fiction alike began to take an interest in information not simply as fact, nor yet as effortlessly transmissible data, but as an unusual and destabilizing new phenomenon. For some writers, such as Joseph Conrad and Walter Benjamin, 'information' came to represent not effortless transmissibility, but
rather an interruption of meaningful communication. For others - such as Elizabeth Bowen - such interruptions were themselves ways of making new kinds of meaning.
The attempt to reimagine and redefine information produced a range of new informatic phenomena dedicated to its control: passports, files, and identity papers; the files of Mass-Observation movement; the literal and figurative blackout procedures of the Blitz; and the government-backed 'information film'.
Modernist Informatics traces the effects of these new phenomena in early twentieth-century culture, where experimental approaches to narrative and to subjectivity began to compete with government archives for the right to represent the citizens of the modern security state. It argues that information and literary narrative have a history of entanglement as well as antagonism, and that this double relation was central to the cultural shaping of modernity.
目次
- Introduction: The Government of Information
- 1 / Secret Agents, Official Secrets
- Inspector Heat's Postal Power - Korzeniowski's Dead Letter Box - Insecurity - Inside Knowledge
- 2 / Dossier Fiction
- Abwehr's Looking at You, Kid - Ford's Forms - Black books, black markets - Papers, please - Thrillers
- 3 / Information Collectives
- The national point of view - a mass of unrelated facts - THIS LITTLE OLD E. OF OURS - Connectivity and Collectivity - paper of all kinds broadcast everywhere
- 4 / Public Information
- Information Film - Utility Aesthetics - A Pattern of Thought and Feeling - Informatic Voices
- 5 / Information Blacked Out
- In the gloaming - Keep it Dark - Keep mum - Frankie's Papers, Bowen's Notes - Between the Lines
- Coda: Information Machines
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