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The archive incarnate : the embodiment and transmission of knowledge in science fiction /

"We live in an information economy, data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and corporations--seek to use this archive to control society, enforcing conformity or turning citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fightin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurtgen, Joseph, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2018]
Colección:Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 65.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Fahrenheit 451 and the archive
  • Rejecting archival embodiment in The handmaid's tale
  • Disembodied embodiment of the archive in Gibson's Neuromancer and "Johnny Mnemonic"
  • Genetic and technological embodiment of the archive in Bruce Sterling's Distraction
  • Education through the digital archive in Neal Stephenson's Snow crash and The diamond age, or, a young lady's illustrated primer
  • Epilogue: archival embodiment in Cory Doctorow's Down and out in the magic kingdom and Ernest Cline's Ready player one.