“Friends of Dorothy”

Robbins, Hannah

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“…70 This Cartesian idea of the body as a form of mechanical vessel for the soul is not an idea that originated in the Modernist period, but the advent of vehicular technologies that mechanically carried the body, and the soul within it, as well as the consequences of technology revealed through the travesties of the war, reawakened these metaphors in Modernist literature. 71 If we continue to consider 68 Eliot, p.50. 69 See Heidegger, p.27 and Eliot, p.50.…”

Section: Technological Physical and Metaphysical Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…70 Robbins, in her analysis of this passage, states "to not care about Diana, a fantasy white woman, is to be wrong, this experience reveals, at the same time we are encouraged to receive news of violence against Black people in the United States as commonplace and easily forgotten". 71 An example of how indifference leads to indifference, Bush's unsympathetic attitude to the death of James Byrd parallels the speaker's lack of reaction to the death of Princess Diana, just as Rankine demonstrates in the parallels between Timothy McVeigh and Lionel Tate. In this way, Rankine highlights the extent to which life-value is equated to race, determining what lives are worth grieving.…”

Section: Life/deathmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…as one of If All the World and Love Were Young's three epigraphs, serving not only as a joke but also to recognize the liminality in a video game between the avatar and the self, another version of himself in the virtual world, reflecting the "super-subjectivity" identified by Kirby. 71 If we consider pictorial art as static moments in time, then video games are experienced as a journey shared between the player and the characters in the virtual world. Yet, akin to the modernists, Sexton's focus is on an impossible journey.…”

Section: Retreading Myth and Modernism -Nostalgia And Collective Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In The Quest to Fail, Johnathan Ullyot examines the use of medieval quest narratives in modernist literature, and how the quest for the holy grail is reconfigured by writers such as Eliot, Kafka, and Henry James. 72 Ullyot claims that "Literary modernity is committed to failure", 73 since it was at odds 71 Kirby, Digimodernism, p.170. 72 Jonathan Ullyot, The Medieval Presence In Modernist Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).…”

Section: Retreading Myth and Modernism -Nostalgia And Collective Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism

Williams¹

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Just as the iPhone relies on the invention of both the Nokia and the first invented telephone before it, our current cultural and literary epoch relies on the history of both postmodernism and modernism. While much of recent literary criticism exclusively charts the legacies of modernism, this thesis argues that postmodernism has also been absorbed into contemporary literature. Tom McCarthy, Claudia Rankine and Stephen Sexton are names synonymous with the revival of modernist styles in contemporary literature, yet their adoption of modernist modes contain intertextual networks, and the playful and ironic self-awareness of literary postmodernism. These postmodern aspects become clear through their shared thematic links and representations of technology. When faced with technological change, literature reinvigorates itself by revisiting the past. The modernists called to “make it new” by returning to the old. Literary postmodernism returned to the past through parody and literary allusions. This thesis argues that contemporary literature is oscillating between the styles and poetics of its two most recent cultural periods. Chapter one establishes the key themes of technology and the body, technē and poesis, and the effect of technology on language, historicity, depth and affect. Chapter two examines Tom McCarthy’s C and Satin Island as postmodern and post-humanist deconstructions of modernist forms, viewing literature as technological broadcast. Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric are analysed in chapter three, a modernist scrutinization of postmodern, mass media mediated life as a racially marginalised individual. The fourth and final chapter examines how Damien Murphy’s “A Mansion of Sapphire” and Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young represent retro-gaming through retro-writing, returning to past styles to examine videogames as artistic objects.

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Section: Technological Physical and Metaphysical Bodiesmentioning

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Section: Life/deathmentioning

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Section: Retreading Myth and Modernism -Nostalgia And Collective Memorymentioning

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Section: Retreading Myth and Modernism -Nostalgia And Collective Memorymentioning

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Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism

Williams¹

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“…were drastically impacted by extended periods of forced isolation. Then, in offering a foundation for researching how queer Users locate each other on TikTok, it explores historical acts of queer signals and their importance within surveilled spaces, supported by literature from Reilly and Saethre (2014), Baker (2002), Robbins (2018) and Weiss (2017). Further, the chapter includes literature on more contemporary queer signals, introducing readers to indie-folk singer Girl in Red and cuffed pants, before incorporating the works of Cait McKinney (2020) and Fox and Ralston (2016) to consider the impacts of free information online and the reliance of queer communities on digital infrastructure to practice aspects of their identities.…”

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TikTok Made Me Gay: Digital Networks and Information Activism on Queer(ed) Platforms

Gleason¹

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In March 2020, the world was altered by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic which saw the forced isolation of millions. Particularly vulnerable to the effects of seclusion, queer youth were forced to rely on digital infrastructure while potentially isolating in unsafe spaces. In tandem with the pandemic, Gen Z flocked to TikTok to engage in escapism amidst the global crisis to partake in trends, comedic content, and explanatory-like videos. Considering these two simultaneous occurrences, this research uses a triangular approach of autoethnography, hashtag analysis, and the reading of popular articles to examine how queer Users locate each other on TikTok through acts of queer signalling. Further, it identifies three outcomes of queer identification on the platform: the reinforcement of one's identity, the spread of information, and the formation of a collective. Ultimately, the networks forged on the platform show how a new generation engages in digital resistance.

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“Friends of Dorothy”

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Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism

Gutenberg Galaxy to Google Galaxy – Contemporary Literature, Technology, and the Legacies of Modernism and Postmodernism

TikTok Made Me Gay: Digital Networks and Information Activism on Queer(ed) Platforms

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