Profiles and Plotlines Data Surveillance in Twenty-First Century Literature |
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| Author:
| Johnston, Katherine D. |
| Series title: | New American Canon Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-893-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2023 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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Algorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. In
Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how...
More DescriptionAlgorithmic data profiling is not merely an important topic in contemporary fiction, it is an increasingly dominant form of storytelling and characterization in our society. In Profiles and Plotlines, Katherine Johnston engages this energetic reformation of contemporary literature to account for a society and economy of frenetic counting. Johnston analyzes prescient work by contemporary authors such as Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine, Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson to probe how the claims of data surveillance serve to make lives seem legible, intelligible, and sometimes even expendable.