What is the role of literature in the Information Age? What does literature have to do, if anything, with utility and progress? A study of fiction and what is imagined to be raw factual information (statistics, quantitative analyses, scientific studies, media), from the Enlightenment to the present. How literature and information relate to questions of knowledge; how information is represented by literary works; how literature responded to the technological crises of modernity and beyond. Introduction to critical tools for reading literary works such as media studies and digital humanities. Authors may include: Baudelaire, Benjamin, Chekhov, Kant, Philip K. Dick, Dilthey, Heidegger, Kittler, Mallarmé, Rousseau, Shelley, Vertov.
Information Overload: Literature, Science, Data
