Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers insights into collective processes of commercialisation and consumption of new media products and explores the experience and mechanisms of interactivity, convergence culture and participatory culture. Crucially, the volume also shows convincingly that, though without doubt global, digital culture and new media have their varied, specifically local facets and manifestations shaped by national contingencies. The interplay of the common subtext and local colour is discussed by the contributors from Eastern Europe and the Western world. Contributors are: Justyna Fruzińska, Dirk de Geest, Maciej Jakubowiak, Michael Joyce, Kinga Kasperek, Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Łukasz Mirocha, Aleksandra Mochocka, Emilya Ohar, Mariusz Pisarski, Anna Ślósarz, Dawn Stobbart, Jean Webb, Indrė Žakevičienė, Agata Zarzycka.

Literature and technology. --- Digital media. --- Electronic games. --- Mass media and literature. --- Online authorship. --- Literature and society.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Culture in literature --- Culture in literature. --- Economics and literature --- Intercultural communication in literature --- Literature and anthropology --- Literature and globalization --- Literature and globalization. --- Literature and society --- Literature. --- Mass media and literature --- Mass media and literature. --- Popular culture and literature --- Popular culture and literature.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist’s relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand’s connection to, and impact on, those with a “posthuman” vision, in which human and machine merge. The text examines the philosophical intersections between Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and posthumanism, and Rand’s influence on transhumanism, a major branch of posthumanist thought. The book further investigates Rand’s presence and portrayal in various examples of posthumanist science fiction, including Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, popular videogame BioShock, and Zoltan Istvan’s novel The Transhumanist Wager. Considering Rand’s influence from a cultural, political, technological, and economic perspective, this study throws light on an under-documented but highly significant aspect of Rand’s legacy.

Rand, Ayn --- Criticism and interpretation. --- O'Connor, Ayn Rand, --- Rand, Ain, --- Rosenbaum, Alice, --- Rosenbaum, Alissa Zinovievna, --- Rosenbaum, Alisa Zinovievna, --- ראנד, איין --- 兰德.安 --- ראנד, איין, --- 兰德.安, --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Technology in literature. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Literary Theory. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Literature --- Literature and Technology. --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy. --- Theory