Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction

David Banash is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, the Age of Consumption (2013) and co-editor of Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things (2013). His essays and reviews have appeared in American Book Review, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, Science Fiction Studies, Paradoxa, PopMatters, Postmodern Culture, Reconstruction, and the Iowa Review.

1. “Variations on a Theme”: the (re)Invention of the Human in Vas: An Opera in Flatland
Sylvie Bauer (Université Rennes 2, France)
2. The Great American Novel: System Update
Kathi Inman Berens (University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, USA)
3. Tomasula's Book
R. M. Berry (Florida State University, USA)
4. Fabrications in a Complex Mirror: Steve Tomasula's Turbulent Fiction
Gerald Bruns (University of Notre Dame, USA)
5. Literary Archaeologies in The Book of Portraiture
Flore 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 Flatland
Anthony Enns (Dalhousie University, Canada)
7. A Book, an Atlas, and an Opera: Steve Tomasula's Fictions of Science as Science Fiction
Pawel 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 TOC
N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University, USA)
9. The Work of Art After the Mechanical Age
Mary Holland (SUNY, New Paltz, USA)
10. Intermediality in Steve Tomasula's TOC: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysis
Anne Hurault-Paupe (Paris 13 University, France)
11. Exploration and Discovery Through Visuality in Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture
Pelin Iscan (University of Strasbourg, France)
12. Do We Not Bleed? The Color of Flesh in a Cyborg World
Anne Larue (University Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France)
13. Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, & Locality: A Politics of the [[page]] in Tomasula's VAS & TOC
Lance Olsen (University of Utah, USA)
14. 'Still, It Moves' : The Subreal Fiction of Steve Tomasula
Jackie Orr (Syracuse University, USA)
15. Enumeration in Steve Tomasula's Short Stories
Françoise Palleau-Papin (University of Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France)
16. Encoding the Body, Questioning Legacy: Reflections on Intersemiotic Experiments in Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland
Françoise Sammarcelli (University of Paris Sorbonne, France)
17. Steve Tomasula's Work of Wonder
Anne-Laure Tissut (Rouen University, France)

Afterword—An Interview with Steve Tomasula

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