Print version: Shackelford, Laura Tactics of the Human Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,c2015 ISBN 9780472072385
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Retracing Digital Cultures through American Fiction -- 1. Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing -- 2. Tracing the Human through Media Difference -- 3. Realizing the Vitality of "Dead" Spaces -- 4. Counting on Affect: Engaging Micropractices of the U.S. Nation -- 5. Novel Diagnosis of Bioinformatic Circulation -- Coda: Unfolding Technics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human..