Chained: a victorian nightmare: thirty minutes into the future?

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Published: Jun 30, 2019
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CHAINED, VICTORIAN NIGHTMARE, THIRTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE?

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George Landow
Brown University

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George P. Landow


Founder, editor in chief and webmaster


[http://www.victorianweb.org]


Professor Emeritus of English and Art History, Brown University [george@victorianweb.org]


 


The present text is a translation made by Dr. Isaura Sánchez, professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico. This translation begins with the question "Why thirty minutes in the future?" Because the experience of seeing -no, experimenting-, the most recent adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol removed the memories of Max Headroom, the old television series of science fiction whose subtitle or slogan was "Twenty minutes in the future" ...


 


 

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Landow, G. (2019). Chained: a victorian nightmare: thirty minutes into the future?. Heterotopías, 2(3). https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/24792
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2019): "Escrituras virtuales y subjetivación. Los nuevos escribientes de la Red"
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George Landow, Brown University

George Landow is a professor at Brown University, critic and theorist of electronic literature, as well as a pioneer in the analysis of the characteristics and effects of the use of hypertext and hypermedia. He is also the founder of The Victorian Web, The Contemporary, Postcolonial, The Cyberspace, Hypertext and Critical Theory web.

Landow's articles and books have been fundamental in the evolution of the effects of new technologies on language and literature, linking with the works of critics such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Paul de Man or Michel Foucault, among others. His most significant work is Hypertext, in which he analyzes the possible convergences between contemporary literary critic theory and the artistic and cultural products of the New Technologies.

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Landow, G. (2019). Chained: a victorian nightmare: thirty minutes into the future?. Heterotopías, 2(3). https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/24792

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