Hyperobject Reading, Scale Variance, and American Fiction in the Anthropocene

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Hyperobject Reading
	Reading the Anthropocene
	Redefining Objects
	Hyperobject Reading
	A Brief Excursus on Methodology
	Postcritical Reading
	Particular Readings of Particular Texts
	References
Chapter 2: A Dialectical Nexus of Objects: Disability as Hyperobject in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed
	The Medical Model
	Forced Walking Versus Dissociative Fugue: Hacking’s First Vector
	The Social Model
	Forced Walking Versus Dissociative Fugue: Hacking’s Second Vector
	The Relational Model
	The Dialectical Model
	A Formalist Response to the Cartesian Question
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Living in an Object-Oriented Universe: The Digital as Hyperobject in Tao Lin’s Taipei
	Analogue Versus Digital
	The Uncaring Digital Universe of Taipei’s Style
	Technological Evolution and the Question of Genre
	Attuning to the Digital
	(Scare) Quotes and Memes
	Affects, and What Lie Beneath
	The Death of the Analogue
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Fighting One Hyperobject with Another: Narrative as Hyperobject in Ben Lerner’s 10:04
	Redefining Metafiction
	What Is Autofiction, Anyway?
	Against Implied Authors and Extradiegetic Narrators
	Narrator Interjections and Direct Address
	Walt Whitman and Scale Variance
	How to Build a Narrative-Hyperobject
	Literary Readymades
	Totaled Artwork, Totaled City
	Retrospective Shift
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Conclusion: Anthropocene Lessons from a Distant Fictional Hyperobject
	Welcome to Solaris
	Viscosity, Nonlocality, and Temporal Undulation
	Putting Them Together: Phasing and Interobjectivity
	Reacting to Hyperobjects: Antagonism and Hermeneuticism
	Attuning to Hyperobjects
	Conclusion
	References
Index