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Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
Mark C. Taylor
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Description for Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
Hardback. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 344 pages, B&W Illus.: 21,. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRAC; HRAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 756. In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. 344 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBH; HRAC; HRAM. Dimension: 206 x 160 x 24. Weight: 756.
Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that 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 posthuman. William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their ... Read more
Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that 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 posthuman. William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Religion, Culture and Public Life
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160407
SKU
V9780231160407
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About Mark C. Taylor
Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion and chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University. His most recent books are Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill; Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy; Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living; After God; Mystic Bones; and Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World Without Redemption.
Reviews for Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo
This book exemplifies what an entire area within religious studies-'religion and literature'-should be yet has never quite become: a genuinely interdisciplinary, existentially attuned, and constructively ambitious enterprise engaged with our most timely social and cultural questions.
Thomas Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Provocative, engaging, significant...
N. Katherine Hayles Los Angeles Review of Books Rewiring the Real is ... Read more
Thomas Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Provocative, engaging, significant...
N. Katherine Hayles Los Angeles Review of Books Rewiring the Real is ... Read more