Remediating the Magic Kingdom: Notes Toward a Poetics of Technology

Eric Mason

Remediating the Magic Kingdom: Notes Toward a Poetics of Technology

Eric Mason

Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts

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Abstract

<ol> <li> In this essay, I will address the imagined technologies within and the existing technologies surrounding Cory Doctorow's sci-fi novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ( DOMK ). DOMK takes place at a Disney theme park in a future where capitalism has been replaced by a reputation economy, death has been rendered obsolete by cloning technologies, and civic decisions are made by amorphous "ad-hocracies." These themes are neither new to sci-fi literature nor central to my discussion, however. By looking at DOMK 's technological context and its articulation of what Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin have termed the "double logic of remediation," I hope to suggest ways in which a critical awareness of literature and of technology can be collectively pursued to further what might be called a poetics of technology . </li> </ol>

Original language	American English
Journal	Currents in Electronic Literacy
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

Magic Kingdom
Poets
consumption
distribution
production
technology

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities

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Remediating the Magic Kingdom: Notes Toward a Poetics of Technology

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