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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc.,
[2018]
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| Series: | Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ;
65. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.