Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late Postmodernism

Section One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William Gaddis
Problems in Two-Dimensions
Postmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and Method
Even Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill Viola
Nauman, Burden, Jokes, and Cruelty
Two Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom Libido
Non-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation Novels

Section Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Framing Excess: An Introduction to Systematic Transgression
Sensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional Calculus"
Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of Repetition

Section Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get": David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-Textuality
Unforeseen Ruptures: David Foster Wallace's Big Break, or, The Legacy of Experimentalism
"Sudden Awakening to the Fact that the Mischief is Irretrievably Done": Epiphanic Structure in Infinite Jest
The Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Epilogue
References
Index

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Explores the impact of new media technologies on postmodern and contemporary American literature, from William Gaddis to David Foster Wallace.

About the Author

Casey Michael Henry is Carl H. Pforzheimer Postdoctoral Fellow in English at The City College of New York, USA.

Reviews

The question of a possible lineage between the work of Burden, Wallace, and Candy Crush is an intriguing and perhaps subver¬sive one to ask. Henry’s eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book.
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