1st Edition
Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories
By Roger Whitson
Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse genealogies of the digital humanities and to unite their methodologies with nineteenth-century... Read more
Contents
Introduction: Alternate Histories of the Digital Humanities
1 Difference Engines
2 Multicultural Techniques
3 Anthropogenic Computing
4 Dialectical Engines
5 Queer Publics
Epilogue: Processual Histories
Biography
Roger Whitson is Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University, USA.
