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W. J. T. Mitchell Trevor Paglen’s art has provided some of the deepest insights into world of contemporary technologies of spectacle and surveillance known to me. His large-format telephotographs of secret black sites have rendered these sinister locations in pictures that resemble abstract paintings, and his I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World…

Abstract. This chapter elaborates on contemporary reading practices that center the character network: vernacular criticism like the Bechdel test and other

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

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In a bit of unhinged book news, an influencer has come under fire this week after attempting to trademark the slogan “Hot Girls Read.” Allie Mitrovich, the content creator behind Allie …

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

On Ms. KingBean89 and other auteurs

Our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture mini-conference on "slop" and "nostalgia" will be held online on May 14th, 2026, with a morning panel on one keyword and afternoon panel on another. E...

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James Jacob Hatfield attends a Symposium on the State of the Literary Ecosystem and tells all (including musings on Chuck Tingles's Pounded In The Butt By My Handsome Sentient Library Card)

The Creep’s Dilemma: The Novel in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Volume 140 Issue 5

Two films clairvoyant in their skepticism of the internet.