Modernist informatics : literature, information, and the state /

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Author / Creator:Purdon, James, 1983- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:xiv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Modernist literature & culture
Modernist literature & culture.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10559338
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ISBN:9780190211691
0190211695
9780190211707
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Editors' Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Government of Information
  • 1. Secret Agents, Official Secrets
  • Inspector Heat's Postal Power
  • Korzeniowski's Dead Letter Box
  • Insecurity
  • Inside Knowledge
  • 2. Dossier Fiction
  • Abwehr's Looking at You, Kid
  • Ford's Forms
  • Black Books, Black Markets
  • Papers, Please
  • Thrillers
  • 3. Information Collectives
  • The National Point of View
  • ...a Mass of Unrelated Facts
  • This Little Old E. of Ours
  • Connectivity and Collectivity
  • ...Paper of All Kinds Broadcast Everywhere....
  • 4. Public Information
  • Information Film
  • Utility Aesthetics
  • A Pattern of Thought and Feeling
  • Informatic Voices
  • 5. Information Blacked Out
  • In the Gloaming...
  • Keep It Dark
  • Keep Mum
  • Frankie's Papers, Bowen's Notes
  • Between the Lines
  • Coda: Information Machines
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index