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How has the advent of digital technology impacted social and institutional trust? And how can imaginative literature help us to answer this question? Impelled by this dual inquiry, Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature addresses the intersections among digital studies, literary studies and studies of trust and distrust. Approaching the contemporary age through the longue durée of literary tradition, the volume is particularly concerned to identify the special affordances of literature for approaching problems of dis/trust in the digital world. Readers will be informed about topical subjects and urgent issues, including the impact of digital technologies on the (literary) public sphere, the status of the digital image and the threat of deepfakes, the emergence of cryptocurrencies and the digital economy, and the AI revolution. Each chapter approaches these topics and issues through the lens of literary texts while also considering how the ways we think about literature are changing in the digital age.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Dis/Trusting the Digital World in Imaginative Literature
Adam Kelly and Katerina Pavlidi
Part I. Dis/Trusting Authority and Digital Publics
1.Trust and Authenticity in the Age of Infinite Data
William Davies
2. Trust Me, I'm an Author: Literary Publicness in the Digital World
Daniel South
3. 'A Cartesian Howl': Trusting the Un/Reliable Human in Hari Kunzru's Red Pill
Rhona Jamieson
4. Trust and Authorship in Brandon Sanderson's Fiction and Fandom
Caitlin Smith and Trenton W. Ford
Part II. Dis/Trusting Artificial Intelligence
5. Edgar Allan Poe, the Mechanical Turk and Technological Purism
Jeffrey M. Binder
6. Long Live the New Flesh: AI Compliance and Trust in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
Curtis Runstedler
7. In the Mirror of Artificial Intelligence: Sincerity, Literature and Trust
in Viktor Pelevin's iPhuck 10
Katerina Pavlidi
Part III. Dis/Trusting the Digital Economy
8. 'Too paranoid for you?': Suspicion, Trust and (Post/Meta?)Modern Money in
Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
Rob Hawkes
9. Trusting the Blockchain, Trusting the Novel in Jennifer Egan's
The Candy House
Adam Kelly
10. Trusting in the Trustless: The Implications of NFT Poetry
Bryn Tales
Part IV. Dis/Trusting the Digital Image
11. Dis/Trusting Digital Photography in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing
Helen Penet
12. Horrors of Digital Communication in Found-Footage Supernatural Films
Thomas Britt
Index
