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On the Fringes: John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids (1955) and Technologies of the Self
The Chrysalids is set in a post-nuclear disaster future in Waknuk, a frontier-like town in Labrador, Canada. The narrative follows David Strorm, a...
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Groomed for Survival—Queer Reproductive Technologies and Cross-Species Assemblages in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu
Women’s reproductive rights continue to be a highly contested ground. Larissa Lai’s queer speculative novel The Tiger Flu (2018) comments from a...
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Ambient Literature Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences. Building...
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Lists and Knowledge
This chapter takes a closer look at the character Sherlock Holmes in both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and the BBC show Sherlock...
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Space, Place, and Disability
Where things are, and how they connect and relate to one another, is intrinsic to people’s lives, and our location, or where we are in a place, can...
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Museums and Archives in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Post-representation
Analog archives and collections management practices used by museums in their traditional forms are currently being replaced by digital technologies....
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The Problem and Its Background
The majority of media theorists and literati were skeptical of the computerization and digitization associated with the turn of the millennium, as...
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Contemporary Social Media and IoT-Based Pandemic Control: Exploring Possibilities of Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Governance
The chapter explores transdisciplinary studies in IoT-based healthcare solutions, their representation through Social media big data. The current...
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Brazilian Childhood and Literature in the Age of Digital Technologies
This essay presents and reflects on research performed between 2013 and 2015 on how Brazilian children utilize digital literature. Edgar Roberto...
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Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media
This chapter recovers the lost history of intermedia. This history relates to the earliest use of the term intermedia, a word coined in 1965 by...
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Shakespeare as a Digital Nomad: An Afterword
The rise of global Shakespeare as an industry and cultural practice—the incorporation of Shakespearean performance in cultural diplomacy and in the...
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Geographies of Peripheral Modernism: The Case of the Russian Avant-Garde (Khlebnikov, Eisenstein, Tretyakov)
The essay explores the extent to which geographical location and imagination might shape notions of peripheral modernism. It takes as its examples...
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Interactive and Participatory Sound
Whether singing, playing an instrument, or dancing, sound has been interactive through most of human history. While the twentieth century has been...
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Introduction: Performance Arts and Technology: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution
Compared with the age-old tradition of culture which is shaped by the humanities, digital culture has a rather short history. However, digital...
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Academic Exhaustion and the Afterlife of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert
Working on the precipice of great technological change in early twentieth-century higher education, John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert...
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Intermedia, Multimedia, and Media
This chapter recovers the lost history of intermedia. This history relates to the earliest use of the term intermedia, a word coined in 1965 by...
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New Stage Aesthetics in the Digital Age
The new style Peking opera, The Imperial Concubine of the Tang Dynasty, staged by the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre and the dance drama, The Never...
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Introduction: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
This essay provides a brief introduction to issues of environment, culture, and narrative in Vietnam as well as a survey of the other essays included...
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Interactive and Participatory Sound
Whether singing, playing an instrument, or dancing, sound has been interactive through most of human history. While the twentieth century has been...
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Course Descriptions: English Literature (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries) and English Literature (Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries)
Following a transperiodising approach to teaching literature, the syllabi for English literature, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries,...