After Globalization: Literature, Technology, National Identity

当前信息时代的文学作品往往要么与一个超越国界的完全参与式在线社区的仓促庆祝有关，要么与关于数字文化的后国家和全球化后果的世界末日宣言有关。虽然关于技术和文本性之间长期联系的批评和理论工作现在正在积聚势头，但很少关注拒绝将数字时代视为乌托邦实现或最终衰落的文化秩序的最后一次动荡的文学小说。全球化之后：文学，技术，国家身份“将识别和探索当代小说，这些小说提供了一种对全球文化在最近技术之后的不确定和焦虑状态的另一种感觉。通过研究20世纪90年代和21世纪初的文本，本书项目将论证，关于技术和全球化的替代思想正在出现，以挑战全球社区和后国家分散的思想。这些小说指出，全球文化的早期叙事（在面对混杂的跨界运动时宣布民族文化的崩溃）发生了转变，它们暴露并反思了最近在技术的跨国影响面前重塑和重申国家主权的努力。通过最近的技术和文化的理论工作，“全球化之后”将研究新技术如何导致民族国家试图维护主权权威，因为它们促进了全球文化的出现。虽然广泛支持的国际主义伦理，已告知某些全球化的反应，它将考虑如何早期意义上的数字文化的跨国影响，现在正在取代社会和文化理论的国家全球主义的新感觉。本研究的理论坐标将由齐格蒙特·鲍曼、约柴·本克勒、曼努埃尔·卡斯特、吉尔·德勒兹、雅克·德里达、弗朗西斯·福山、马克·汉森、N.凯瑟琳海尔斯，弗里德里希基特勒，劳伦斯莱西格，雪莉特克尔，保罗维里利奥，和麦肯齐沃克。本研究将描绘文学文本通过各种技术形式、设备和结构重塑民族的一些复杂而动态的方式。最初，它将调查和问题的全球“netizenship”的概念，在20世纪90年代变得流行，与因陀罗辛哈的1999年小说“网络吉普赛人”提供了一个国家归属感如何被视为越来越多地转移到网络和虚拟社区的小说意义。然后，该项目将考虑最近的小说（如玛格丽特阿特伍德的2003年小说“羚羊和秧鸡”和保罗Verhoeven的1997年电影版的“星舰骑兵”）的方式往往与身体，主体性和认知的生物技术改造与新的，后国家，社会形式的出现。它将考虑密码学在追求国家安全中的作用，以及信息档案和数据避风港的跨国地位-这些问题占据了尼尔斯蒂芬森1999年的小说“密码”。该项目将探讨在过去十年中，国际法的重塑，以应对技术移民和网络犯罪，这一背景构成了Hari Kunzru对黑客行为（在他2004年的“传输”中）的形象的背景，作为一种无法识别的政治干预形式，中断了国家和国际立法运作的结构。最后，“全球化之后”将审查文本（萨尔瓦多Plascenia的2005年“纸的人”，马克Z。Danielewski的2006年的“唯一的革命”和Reif Larson的2009年的“T. S.它不仅质疑电子文学对印刷小说的超越，而且还记录了全球化当下地域定位和民族文化的持续存在。

The literature of the current information age is often associated either with the hasty celebration of a fully participatory online community that transcends national borders or with apocalyptic pronouncements on digital culture's postnational and globalizing consequences. While critical and theoretical work on the long-standing bond between technology and textuality is now gathering momentum, attention is only rarely given to literary fictions which refuse to see the digital age either as utopia achieved or as the last convulsion of a cultural order in terminal decline.'After Globalization: Literature, Technology, National Identity' will identify and explore contemporary fictions which offer an alternative sense of the uncertain and anxious status of global culture in the wake of recent technologies. Examining texts of the 1990s and 2000s, this book project will argue that alternative ideas about technology and globalization are emerging to challenge ideas of worldwide community and postnational dispersion. Pointing to a shift away from early narratives of global culture (which declare the collapse of national cultures in the face of hybridizing transborder movements), these fictions expose and reflect on recent efforts to reinvent and reassert national sovereignty in the face of technology's transnational effects. Informed by recent theoretical work on technology and culture, 'After Globalization' will examine how new technologies have resulted in nation-states' attempts to maintain sovereign authority as much as they have facilitated the emergence of global culture. While broadly supportive of the internationalist ethic that has informed certain responses to globalization, it will consider how the early sense of digital culture's transnational effects is now being supplanted in social and cultural theory by a new sense of national globalism. This research's theoretical co-ordinates will be provided by, among others, Zygmunt Bauman, Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Francis Fukuyama, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, Lawrence Lessig, Sherry Turkle, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark. This study will map some of the complex and dynamic ways in which literary texts figure the reshaping of nationality by various technological forms, devices, and structures. Initially, it will survey and question notions of global 'netizenship' that became popular in the 1990s, with Indra Sinha's 1999 novel 'The Cybergypsies' providing a novelistic sense of how national belonging was seen to be increasingly displaced onto networked and virtual communities. The project will then consider the ways in which recent fictions (such as Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel 'Oryx and Crake' and Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film version of 'Starship Troopers') have often associated the biotechnological transformation of the body, subjectivity and cognition with the emergence of new, postnational, forms of sociality. It will consider the role of cryptology in the pursuit of national security, and on the transnational status of information archives and data havens - issues which preoccupy Neal Stephenson's 1999 novel 'Cryptonomicon'. This project will explore the reshaping of international law during the last decade in response to technomigration and cybercriminality, a context that forms the backdrop to Hari Kunzru's imaging of hacking (in his 2004 'Transmission') as an unidentifiable form of political intervention that interrupts the structures through which national and international legislation operate. Finally, 'After Globalization' will examine texts (Salvador Plascenia's 2005 'The People of Paper', Mark Z. Danielewski's 2006 'Only Revolutions', and Reif Larson's 2009 'The Selected Letters of T.S. Spivet') which not only question the overcoming of the print novel by electronic literature, but also document the persistence of territorial location and national cultures in the globalized present.