Steve Tomasula : The Art and Science of New Media Fiction

Steve Tomasula's Work Exists At The Cutting Edges Of Scientific Knowledge And Literary Techniques. As Such, It Demands Consideration From Multiple Perspectives And From Critics Who Can Guide The Reader Through The Formal Innovations And Multimedia Involutions While Providing Critical Scientific, Aesthetic, Historical, And Technical Contexts. This Book, The First Of Its Kind, Provides This Framework, Showing Readers The Richness And Relevance Of The Worlds Tomasula Constructs. Steve Tomasula's Work Is Redefining The Form Of The Novel, Reinventing The Practice Of Reading, And Wrestling With The Most Urgent Questions Raised By Massive Transformations Of Media And Biotechnologies. His Work Not Only Charts These Changes, It Formulates The Problems That We Have Making Meaning In Our Radically Changing Technological Contexts. Vast In Scope, Inventive In Form, And Intimate In Voice, His Novels, Short Stories, And Essays Are Read And Taught By A Surprisingly Diverse Array Of Scholars In Fields Ranging From Contemporary Experimental Writing And Literary Criticism To The History Of Science, Biotechnology And Bioart, Book Studies, And Digital Humanities-- Introduction: Composition, Emergence, Sensation: Science And New Media In The Novels Of Steve Tomasula / David Banash And Andrea Spain -- The Work Of Art After The Mechanical Age: Materiality, Narrative, And The Real In The Work Of Steve Tomasula / Mary K. Holland -- The Material Is The Message: Codied Bodies And Emodied Code's In Steve Tomasula's Vas: An Opera In Flatland / Francoise Sammarcelli -- Steve Tomasula's Vas, Or What If Novels Were Books? / R.m. Berry -- Literary Archaeologies In Steve Tomasula's The Book Of Portraiture / Flore Chevaillier -- Beyond Human Scale: Steve Tomasula's The Book Of Portraiture / N. Katerine Hayles -- Mining The Gap: Word, Image, And Loss In Tomasula's The Book Of Portraiture / Birger Vanwesenbeeck -- Touch And Decay: Tomasula's Toc On Ipad / Kathi Inman Berens -- Intermediality In Steve Tomasula's Toc: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysis / Anne Hurault-paupe -- Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, & Locality: A Politics Of The [[page]] In Tomasula's Vas & Toc / Lance Olsen -- A Book, An Atlas, And An Opera: Steve Tomasula's Fictions Of Science As Science Fiction / Pawel Frelik -- Do We Not Bleed? The Color Of Flesh In A Pop Cyborg World / Anne Larue -- Enumeration And The Form Of The Short Story In Steve Tomasula's Once Human / Francoise Palleau-papin -- Steve Tomasula's Work Of Wonder / Anne Larue Tissut. Machine Generated Contents Note: --^ 1. Variations On A Theme: The (re)invention Of The Human In Vas: An Opera In Flatlandsylvie Bauer (universite; Rennes 2, France)2. The Great American Novel: System Updatekathi Inman Berens (university Of Southern California, Annenberg School Of Communication, Usa)3. Tomasula's Bookr. M. Berry (florida State University, Usa)4. Fabrications In A Complex Mirror: Steve Tomasula's Turbulent Fictiongerald Bruns (university Of Notre Dame, Usa)5. Literary Archaeologies In The Book Of Portraitureflore Chevaillier (central State University, Usa)6. The Material Is The Message: Body As Text/text As Body In Steve Tomasula's Vas: An Opera In Flatlandanthony Enns (dalhousie University, Canada)7. A Book, An Atlas, And An Opera: Steve Tomasula's Fictions Of Science As Science Fictionpawel Frelik (maria Curie-sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland)8. Spatiality And Print, Temporality And Digital Media: Media-specific Strategies In Steve Tomasula's The Book Of Portraiture And Tocn.^ Katherine Hayles (duke University, Usa)9. The Work Of Art After The Mechanical Agemary Holland (suny, New Paltz, Usa)10. Intermediality In Steve Tomasula's Toc: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysisanne Hurault-paupe (paris 13 University, France)11. Exploration And Discovery Through Visuality In Steve Tomasula's The Book Of Portraiturepelin Iscan (university Of Strasbourg, France)12. Do We Not Bleed? The Color Of Flesh In A Cyborg Worldanne Larue (university Paris 13-sorbonne Paris Cite;, France)13. Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, & Locality: A Politics Of The [[page]] In Tomasula's Vas & Toclance Olsen (university Of Utah, Usa)14. 'still, It Moves' : The Subreal Fiction Of Steve Tomasulajackie Orr (syracuse University, Usa)15. Enumeration In Steve Tomasula's Short Storiesfrançoise Palleau-papin (university Of Paris 13-sorbonne Paris Cite;, France)16.^ Encoding The Body, Questioning Legacy: Reflections On Intersemiotic Experiments In Steve Tomasula's Vas: An Opera In Flatlandfrançoise Sammarcelli (university Of Paris Sorbonne, France)17. Steve Tomasula's Work Of Wonderanne-laure Tissut (rouen University, France)afterword-an Interview With Steve Tomasulabibliography Index. Edited By David Banash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Contents 8 Illustrations 10 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations for Steve Tomasula’s Major Works 13 Introduction: Composition, Emergence, Sensation: Science and New Media in the Novels of Steve Tomasula David Banash and Andrea Spain 14 Part One Bodies, Signs, Codes, and Books 38 1 The Work of Art after the Mechanical Age: Materiality, Narrative, and the Real in the Work of Steve Tomasula Mary K. Holland 40 2 “The Material is the Message”: Coded Bodies and Embodied Codes in Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland Anthony Enns 64 3 Encoding the Body, Questioning Legacy: Reflections on Intersemiotic Experiments in Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland Françoise Sammarcelli 88 4 Steve Tomasula’s VAS, or What if Novels Were Books? R. M. Berry 112 Part Two Genealogies of Representation 128 5 Literary Archeologies in Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture Flore Chevaillier 130 6 Beyond Human Scale: Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture N. Katherine Hayles 146 7 Mining the Gap: Word, Image, and Loss in Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture Birger Vanwesenbeeck 160 Part Three New Media and the Novel 178 8 Touch and Decay: Tomasula’s TOC on iPad Kathi Inman Berens 180 9 Intermediality in Steve Tomasula’s TOC: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysis Anne Hurault-Paupe 196 10 Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, and Locality: A Politics of the [[ Page ]] in Tomasula’s VAS & TOC Lance Olsen 222 Part Four Writing Wonder 238 11 A Book, an Atlas, and an Opera: Steve Tomasula’s Fictions of Science as Science Fiction Pawel Frelik 240 12 “Do We Not Bleed?” “The Color of Flesh” in a Pop Cyborg World Anne Larue 254 13 Enumeration and the Form of the Short Story in Steve Tomasula’s Once Human Françoise Palleau-Papin 272 14 Steve Tomasula’s Work of Wonder Anne-Laure Tissut 286 Afterword: An Interview with Steve Tomasula 298 Contributors 318 Bibliography 323 Index 333 "Steve Tomasula's work exists at the cutting edges of scientific knowledge and literary techniques. As such, it demands consideration from multiple perspectives and from critics who can guide the reader through the formal innovations and multimedia involutions while providing critical scientific, aesthetic, historical, and technical contexts. This book, the first of its kind, provides this framework, showing readers the richness and relevance of the worlds Tomasula constructs. Steve Tomasula's work is redefining the form of the novel, reinventing the practice of reading, and wrestling with the most urgent questions raised by massive transformations of media and biotechnologies. His work not only charts these changes, it formulates the problems that we have making meaning in our radically changing technological contexts. Vast in scope, inventive in form, and intimate in voice, his novels, short stories, and essays are read and taught by a surprisingly diverse array of scholars in fields ranging from contemporary experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science, biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities"-- "The first book devoted to Steve Tomasula, bringing together scholars in fields ranging from contemporary experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science, biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities"--