Rewiring the Real In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don Delillo

Name: Rewiring the Real In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don Delillo
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ISBN: 9780231160407

ISBN-10: 0231160402

ISBN-13: 9780231160407

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark C. Taylor

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Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing the way we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments for bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and post-human.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon brilliantly in their work. Engaging each in…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.82" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English



List of Illustrations


nexus



Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion: William Gaddis, the Recognitions


Between Belief and Unbelief


Samhain-All Saints Day


Feast of Sol Invictus-Christmas


Eoustur-Easter


Counterfeiting Counterfeits



Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark


Misrecognitions


Recovery


Science Fiction


Caves


Killing Time


Marking Time


After Byzantium



Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves


Wired


Blindness and Insight


Entrances Without Exits


Life Online


Father's House



"Holy Shit!": Don Delillo, Underworld


Prologue


Waste


Part 1


Andy 1


Part 2


Part 3


Andy 2


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6


Andy 3


Epilogue to Epilogue


Das Kapital III


After Thought


Earth Works



Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion


Theological Foundations


Art and Science


Religion Within the Limits of Style Alone


Questions of Style


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index