The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Holodeck in the Garden / Peter Freese, Charles B. HarrisThe Holodeck in the Garden: Informatics in the Age of the PosthumanPerformative Code and Figurative Language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon / N. Katherine HaylesThe Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine / Joseph ConteAre Rhizomes Scale-free?: Network Theory and Contemporary American Fiction / John H. Johnston"Of Metal Ducks, Embodied Iduros, and Autopoietic Bridges": Tales of an Intelligent Materialism in the Age of Artificial Life / Hanjo BerressemKingdoms of the Blind: Technology and Vision in Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma and Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report / Christian BerkemeierTechnoromanticism and the Limits of Representationalism: Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark / Charles B. HarrisThe Great American Disaster Machine / Curtis WhiteThe Technology in/of Contemporary American FictionMech/Shaper, or, Varieties of Prosthetic Fiction: Mathews, Sorrentino, Acker, and Others / Brian McHaleRace and Modernity in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist / Michael BerubeAnxieties of Obsolescence: DeLillo's Cosmopolis / David CowartPerforming the Spectacle of Technology at the Beginning of the American Century: Steven Milhauser's Martin Dressler / Udo J. HebelHistory on Wheels: A Hegelian Reading of "Speed" in Contemporary American Literature and Culture / Klaus BeneschStephen Wright: Going Native (by Car) / Michael Porsche