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Author:

Tietchen, Todd F., author.

Title:

Technomodern poetics : the American literary avant-garde at the start of the Information Age / Todd F. Tietchen.

Publisher:

University Of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 181 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and technology--History--20th century.
Literature and science--History--20th century.
Literature, Experimental--United States--History and criticism.
Beats (Persons)
Authors, American--20th century--Political and social views.
Technology and the arts--History--20th century.
Science and the arts--History--20th century.
American literature.
Authors, American--Political and social views.
Beat generation.
Literature and science.
Literature and technology.
Literature, Experimental
Science and the arts.
Technology and the arts.
United States
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Poetics of Symmetrical Critique -- Chapter 1. Starting with Olson -- Chapter 2. Humanizing the Network: Noise! -- Chapter 3. Dharmic Atomism: On the Metaphysics of Extended Cognition -- Chapter 4. Secondary Paradise: The Surrealist Immersion -- Chapter 5. Surveillance as Pleasure -- Chapter 6. Mirror, Mirror: Thoughts at the Interface -- Coda: Contextualizing Quantification.

Summary:

"After the second World War, the term "technology" came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Technomodern Poetics examines how some of the most well-known writers of the era described the tensions between technical, literary, and media cultures at the dawn of the Digital Age. Poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, and Frank O'Hara, among others, anthologized in Donald Allen's iconic The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, provided a canon of work that has proven increasingly relevant to our technological present. Elaborating on the theories of contemporaneous technologists such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, J.C.R. Licklider, and a host of noteworthy others, these artists express the anxieties and avant-garde impulses they wrestled with as they came to terms with a complex array of issues raised by the dawning of the nuclear age, computer-based automation, and the expansive reach of electronic media. As author Todd Tietchen reveals, even as these writers were generating novel forms and concerns, they often continued to question whether such technological changes were inherently progressive or destructive. With an undeniable timeliness, Tietchen's book is sure to appeal to courses in modern English literature and American studies, as well as among fans of Beat writers and early Cold War culture"-- Provided by publisher.
"After the second World War, the term "technology" came to signify both the anxieties of possible annihilation in a rapidly changing world and the exhilaration of accelerating cultural change. Informatics & the New American Poetry examines how some of the most well-known writers of the era described the tensions between the technical, literary and media cultures during the ascendency of computing. Poets and writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac and Frank O'Hara, among others anthologized in Donald Allen's iconic The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, provided a canon of work that has proven increasingly relevant to our technological present. Engaging and elaborating upon the theories of contemporaneous technologists such as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, J.C.R. Licklider, and a host of noteworthy others, these artists reveal the anxieties and avant-garde impulses they wrestled with as they came to terms with a complex of issues raised by the dawning of the nuclear age, computer-based automation, and the expansive reach of electronic media. As author Todd Tietchen reveals, even as these writers were generating novel forms and concerns, they often continued to question whether such technological changes were inherently progressive, or geared toward human well-being"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

New American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture

ISBN:

160938590X
9781609385903

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1031189917

LCCN:

2018013982

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)