Dialectic of spectrality : a transpacific study on being in the age of cyberculture, 1945~2012
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The recent rise of digital media and human-machine interfaces has redefined survival for the conscious human subject. The most advanced technological apparatuses run on the principle of ambiguity and fluidity, countering the long-standing nostalgia towards an illusory state of totality seen in the history of Western ontology. Drawing on psychoanalytic, postmodern and cognitive theories, I reinterpret the fragmented, transgressive and incomprehensible aspects of digital communication and interaction as the fundamental modes, not objects, of individual and collective existence. I situate my discourse in a transcultural framework through Korean, Japanese and American literature and visual media, including works by Neal Stephenson (U.S.), Murakami Haruki (Japan) and Kim Young-ha (Korea).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Shin, Haerin |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Berman, Russell A, 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Levy, Indra A |
| Thesis advisor | Kwŏn, Yŏng-min, 1948- |
| Advisor | Levy, Indra A |
| Advisor | Kwŏn, Yŏng-min, 1948- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Haerin Shin. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Hae Rin Shin
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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