| Description |
vi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the official world: The premises of the official world; Suspendedness; The human pyramid; Disinhibition training; Self-boosterism as worldview : paperback science; Isotopias; Highsmith's pathographies -- Brecht's rabbit : the anthropotechnics of suspense: The posthuman pyramid; INS; IRS; The uncanny valley; Coda: the loyalty card -- "The proper study of interaction": Vicarious life; Vicarious crime -- Chain letters: Official time; The autotropic mode : dictaphone, answering machine, Twitter; Wrecking our nursery : "to devise new means of destroying the world we inhabit"; The train, the carousel, and the movies -- Parlor games: The office and the laboratory; Parlor games; The rules of irrelevance; The switchboard of the social; The systems turn : art and anthropotechnics -- The natural history of artificial life: Life during wartime; Secluded education; "Sex in the outside world" : art with humans in Never let me go -- The wall of the world: "A socialized trance" : the practical joke; The crystal world on wheels : murder on the Orient Express; The pear-shaped man -- Marching in files: Repeated repeating : appointment with death; Repeating repeating : remainder -- The turn turn: Away; The incrementalist turn; Playing society; Playing dead; Officialism -- A postscript on the official world: The autonomization of everything; Outside the official world; Outside of everything; "The provocation of the outside" : "the vanished age of space"; The anatomy and the atlas : Knausgaard's Mein Kampf. |
| Subject |
Suspense fiction -- History and criticism.
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Crime in popular culture.
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Crime in mass media.
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Literature and society.
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Crime in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00883040
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Crime in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst00883042
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Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
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Suspense fiction. (OCoLC)fst01139687
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9780822361008 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0822361000 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780822360865 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0822360861 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780822374459 (e-book) |
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0822374455 |
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