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Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.

Gothic; Horror; Media; Virus; Network Society; Literature; Film; Literary Studies; American Studies; British Studies --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism. --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- American Studies. --- British Studies. --- Film. --- Horror. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Media. --- Network Society. --- Virus.

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After postmodern critique has deconstructed, decentered, and displaced order and identity on all levels, we are faced with the Humpty Dumpty question of how to put the pieces back together again. This book brings together the seldom associated discourses of hermeneutics, actor-network theory, and new media in order to formulate a theory of a global network society. Hermeneutics re-opens the question of unity in a fragmented world. Actor-network theory reinterprets the construction of meaning as networking. New media studies show how networking is done. Networks arise, are maintained, and are transformed by communicative actions that are governed by network norms that make up a social operating system. The social operating system offers an alternative to the imperatives of algorithmic logic, functionality, and systemic closure that dominate present day solutions to problems of over-complexity in all areas. The world of meaning constructed by the social operating system is a mixed reality in which filters and layers replace the physical restraints of space and time as parameters of knowing and acting. Society and nature, humans and non-humans come together in a socio-sphere consisting of hybrid, heterogeneous actor-networks. This book proposes reinterpreting hermeneutics as networking and networking as guided by a social operating system whose norms are based on new media. There emerges a theory for a global network society described by different concepts than those typical of Western modernity. »Der Band [beeindruckt] nicht nur durch seine Eigenschaft, konzise Überblicke herzustellen, sondern auch dadurch, dass in den einzelnen Abschnitten immer wieder deutlich der Bezug zur Hauptthese hergestellt und durch Vor- und Rückgriffe eine dichte Argumentation geführt wird. Die Klarheit und Nachvollziehbarkeit des Textes lässt ihn dabei als eine einführende Lektüre in die ANT und ihre Anwendungsgebiete ebenso geeignet erscheinen wie als Ausgangspunkt oder Argument einer fortgesetzten Methoden-Diskussion.« Solvejg Nitzke, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2015)

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