The Archive Incarnate: The Embodiment and Transmission of Knowledge in Science Fiction

by Joseph Hurtgen

We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities--governments and corporations--attempt to use this archive to control society, enforce conformity or turn citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fighting to liberate the collective mind from those who would enforce top-down control. Archival technology and its depictions in science fiction have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476672466
• ISBN13: 9781476672465
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher