Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?
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The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, banking, engines, and cities, because all of these technologies changed how we think and move through the world. The rise of major metropolitan centers around the world, for example, brought with it Baudelaire’s flâneur just as transcontinental railroads made narrative skips in space and time more legi
The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, banking, engines, and cities, because all of these technologies changed how we think and move through the world. The rise of major metropolitan centers around the world, for example, brought with it Baudelaire’s flâneur just as transcontinental railroads made narrative skips in space and time more legi
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