媒体曝光:Neal Stephenson的Snow Crash和Don DeLillo的White Noise中的传染病和通信网络

IF 0.3 4区文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Configurations Pub Date : 2021-11-10 DOI:10.1353/con.2021.0030

M. Ingwersen

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摘要

摘要:流行病是媒体事件，因为它们揭示了影响的隐藏物质，这些影响塑造了嵌入更广泛的生态和技术文化系统中的身体之间的联系。本文考察了传染病与传播网络之间的关系，分析了尼尔·斯蒂芬森的《雪崩》(1992)和唐·德里罗的《白噪音》(1984)，这两部美国小说关注的是不断变化的主体性，并从根本上暴露于物质符号学环境的力量之下。根据基本媒体理论、控制论和生态批评的见解，我说明了如何与流行病的幽灵达成协议，需要对物理通信基础设施有批判性的认识。

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Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and Don DeLillo’s White Noise

ABSTRACT:Pandemics are media events in that they reveal the hidden materialities of influence that shape the connections among bodies embedded in wider ecological and technocultural systems. Examining the relationship between communicable disease and communication networks, this article offers an analysis of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1984), two American novels that focus on subjectivities in flux and radically exposed to the forces of their material-semiotic environment. Drawing on insights from elemental media theory, cybernetics, and ecocriticism, I illustrate how coming to terms with the specter of pandemics entails a critical awareness of physical communication infrastructures.

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Configurations Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： Configurations explores the relations of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology. Founded in 1993, the journal continues to set the stage for transdisciplinary research concerning the interplay between science, technology, and the arts. Configurations is the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).