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Deconstruction in context: literature and philosophy
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ISBN: 0226791408 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago

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Deconstruction in context : literature and philosophy
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ISBN: 0226791394 9780226791395 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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ISBN: 0226791386 9780226791388 Year: 1987 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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Kierkegaard's pseudonymous authorship: : a study of time and the self
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ISBN: 0691072027 9780691072029 0691198012 0691618135 0691656487 Year: 1975 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,


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Rewiring the real : in conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
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ISBN: 9780231160414 9780231160407 9780231531641 0231531648 9781306313032 1306313031 0231160402 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York: Columbia university press,

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Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.

About religion : economies of faith in virtual culture
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ISBN: 0226791610 0226791629 Year: 1999 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

Critical terms for religions studies
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ISBN: 0226791564 0226791572 9780226791579 Year: 1998 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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The moment of complexity : emerging network culture
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ISBN: 0226791181 0226791173 9780226791173 9780226791180 Year: 2001 Publisher: Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago press,

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“The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic.”-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and MathematicsThe science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function, how species organize into ecosystems, how stars form into galaxies, and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently, the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market, the response of voting populations, and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.Given the startling development of new information technologies, we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity, Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst, unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor, complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept, but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us, he argues, has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology, Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture, he claims, we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations, but also to explore the subtle influences of art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and higher education. The Moment of Complexity, then, is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture, and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.

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