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"What Am I, a Machine?": Humans and Information in The Pale King

Conley Wouters

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on selfishness in the elevator section of TPK (19). draws on How We Become Posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles: how we've moved towards a cultural glorification of computation rather than humanity, and how that's represented in TPK by the accountants doing what is essentially computation. goes into Claude Sylvanshine being a stand-in for Claude Shannon; the quote from the title is actually something he says on p370. suggests that we think of TPK as an almanac rather than a novel, and that "cohabitational harmony between consciousness and information, human and machine, is both possible and productive" (p186)

? (2014). "What Am I, a Machine?": Humans and Information in The Pale King. In ? David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 169-186

relating to the outer layer of the cerebrum (cortex)

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cortical atrophy

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cortical atrophy

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relating to Jean Jacques Rousseau's book "The Social Contract", on the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society

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a philosophical school with a variety of different meanings, most of which entail going beyond traditional humanism in some way

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descended from the same male ancestor as a specified or implied subject, especially through the male line

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boys and girls made strange agnate forms on pallets

a quote from TPK

—p.183 by David Foster Wallace
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boys and girls made strange agnate forms on pallets

a quote from TPK

—p.183 by David Foster Wallace
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