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Markley, Robert Markley, Robert Nelson, Cary Schaffner, Spencer W. Basu, Anustup Mandell, Laura Simeone, Michael P. 2011-05-25T14:52:52Z 2011-05-25T14:52:52Z 2011-05-25T14:52:52Z 2011-05 Challenging the argument that liberal humanism faces extinction in the face of ubiquitous digital technologies, my dissertation analyzes the ways in which consumer electronics reinscribe the human subject as a privileged category in the information age. Through spaces like the Matrix, Windows 7, or even the single row of play controls on a cassette deck, gadgets preserve the concept of human autonomy by yoking personal entertainment with technical knowledge, agency, citizenship, and individuality. In American postwar fiction and film, gadgets serve powerful functions that allow authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Richard Powers to explore the complexities of humankind’s responses to technological and digital innovation Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-04-20T14:18:09Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Simeone_Michael.doc: 637440 bytes, checksum: e530ef57af8b938f5be2070b9dc30887 (MD5) Simeone_Michael.pdf: 1114097 bytes, checksum: 88a8fbe2f14a87cdfdf2a9960e3f06f6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T14:52:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 Simeone_Michael.pdf: 1113842 bytes, checksum: 7798af33c22f16715953063fd8d7d479 (MD5) Simeone_Michael.doc: 597504 bytes, checksum: d01e9b76baf54844704f841eb3c04288 (MD5) 1_Simeone_Michael.doc: 597504 bytes, checksum: d01e9b76baf54844704f841eb3c04288 (MD5) license.txt: 4065 bytes, checksum: 9c7a08b4f042a6fee105b9c6d92a8750 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24244 en copyright 2011 Michael Simeone cybernetics posthumanism american literature electronics gadgets cyberpunk media studies new media digital humanities postwar literature informatics American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction English 1499 English 0311 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:English -UIUC 10KS0311PHD