The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior

T2 - Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental

AU - Lupton, Tina Jane

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Abstract This article asks what it means to consider a twenty-first-century novel as a machine able to talk about its own materiality. Is it a series of keystrokes or digital files or marks on a page? If, as Friedrich Kittler presumes, digital technology has boosted the autopoietic qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on ...

AB - Abstract This article asks what it means to consider a twenty-first-century novel as a machine able to talk about its own materiality. Is it a series of keystrokes or digital files or marks on a page? If, as Friedrich Kittler presumes, digital technology has boosted the autopoietic qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on ...

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0029-5132

VL - 49

SP - 504

EP - 518

JO - Novel

JF - Novel

IS - 3

ER -