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245 00$aDigitalizing the global text :$bphilosophy, literature, and culture /$cedited by Paul Allen Miller.
260 $aColumbia, South Carolina :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press ;$aTaipei City, Taiwan :$c[2019].$bNational Taiwan University Press,
300 $avi, 194 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aEast-West encounters in llterature and cultural studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart one. The local and the global in the digital age -- On being old and queer : Plato's Seventh letter in the digital age, or, resisting neoliberalism / Paul Allen Miller -- Local cultures, global audiences : the dream (and nightmare) of the world novel / Alexander Beecroft -- Global public, digital public : neo-epistolary and tactical consumption in toi / Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu -- Wagner in China : negotiating the national, the universal, and the global / Nicholas Vazsonyi -- Part two. Going global : digital popular culture -- Right to the city : the metropolis and Gangnam style / Julie Choi -- The garden of living paths : interactive narratives in global Greek culture / Mou-Lan Wong -- Part three. The global object world : literature and ontology in late capitalism -- The ontological turn : a new problematic for literature and globalization / Meili Steele -- Altered realism in ontological fiction : Never let me go and Point omega / Chi-she Li -- Ghost in the machine : fetishism and the laboring body in Marx, Dickens, and Mayhew / Hisup Shin.
520 $aThe present book in both its topic and its transnational makeup has come at a very particular moment. A few short years ago, globalism seemed to be both a known and an inexorable phenomenon. With the end of the Cold War, the opening of the Chinese economy, and the ascendancy of digital technology, the prospect of a unified flow of goods and services, of people and ideas seemed unstoppable (Moraru). Political theorists such as Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the end of history. Yes, there were pockets of resistance and reaction, but these, we were told, would be swept away in a relentless tide of free markets and global integration that would bring Hollywood, digital finance, and fast food to all. Religious fundamentalism, revanchist forms of nationalism, attachments to traditional sexual identities would melt away before the forces of what were variously termed modernity, postmodernity, and Empire. A kind of relentless, technocratic rationality would sweep all in its wake, bringing a neoliberal utopia of free markets, free speech, and ever-increasing productivity. Were there, in the words of a seventies classic, limits to growth (Meadows et al.)? If so, they would be either transcended or accommodated by the same forces that threatened their breach. Climate change would be managed through a combination of technological innovation and agreed-upon regulation. Population control would be achieved by education, prosperity, and women entering the workforce--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aGlobalization.
650 0$aEconomic development.
650 0$aPostmodernism.
700 1 $aMiller, Paul Allen,$d1959-
830 0$aEast-West encounters in llterature and cultural studies.