The Official World
Author:   Mark Seltzer
Publisher:   Duke University Press
ISBN:  

9780822360865


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   08 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark Seltzer
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780822360865


ISBN 10:   0822360861
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   08 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part I. The Daily Planet 1. Introduction to the Official World  3 2. Brecht's Rabbit: The Anthropotechnics of Suspense  25 Part II. Stationary Carousels and Chain Letters: The Ego-Technic Media of the Official World 3. ""The Proper Study of Interaction""  47 4. Chain Letters  61 Part III. ""Social Games"": Playing Our Part in the Systems Epoch 5. Parlor Games  83 6. The Natural History of Artificial Life  109 Part IV. Suspended Worlds: Men in Self-Curved Space 7. The Wall of the World  127 8. Marching in Files  142 Part V. News from the Outside 9. The Turn Turn  163 10. A Postscript on the Official World  178 Acknowledgments  199 Notes  201 Bibliography  261 Index  275

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In The Official World Mark Seltzer extends his idiosyncratic and mesmerizing account of modernity realized, here, through a tour-de-force engagement with the fiction of Patricia Highsmith, among many others. Reading Seltzer can induce exhilaration and a kind of vertigo. But it never fails to lead you to a compelling (at times amusing and at times chilling) recognition of how our world operates, and how it keeps on operating. The most imaginative and astute critic working in the systems theory paradigm, Seltzer provides an account of the modern world that will make a major impact in literary studies and beyond. --Bill Brown, author of A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature


Author Information

Mark Seltzer is Evan Frankel Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of several books, including Bodies and Machines and Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture.

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