TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Mark C.
AU  - Danielewski,Mark
AU  - Gaddis,William
AU  - Powers,Richard
TI  - Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo 
T2  - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
SN  - 9780231160414
AV  - PS228.T42 T39 2013
U1  - 810.9356 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Spirituality in literature
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Technology in literature
KW  - Technology
KW  - Theology in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; neχus --; 1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion --; 2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark --; 3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves --; 4. "Holy Shit!": Don DeLillo, Underworld --; 5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/tayl16040
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231531641
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231531641/original
ER  -