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Institut du monde anglophone / &#201;cole normale sup&#233;rieureParis &#183; January 23-25, 2020Informationsimmersions.hypotheses.orgEvent open to all public!A joint initiative fromUniversit&#233; Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis /&#160; EA 1569 TransCrit (Arnaud Regnauld) :&#160;https://www.univ-paris8.fr/EA-1569-Transferts-critiques-et-dynamiques-des-savoirs-domaine-anglophoneUniversit&#233; Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle / EA 4398 PRISMES (B&#233;atrice Pire &#38; PL Patoine) : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/actualites-de-prismes-428721.kjsp?RH=1256225590927Ecole Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC (COMUE Universit&#233; Paris Lumi&#232;res) :&#160;http://eur-artec.frProgramThursday January 2319:00 &#183; Projection of art film Welcome to Erewhon (Gwenola Wagon St&#233;phane Degoutin, Pierre Cassou-Nogu&#232;s, 2018)Cin&#233;math&#232;que (room 49)Sorbonne Nouvelle University &#8211; Censier Campus13 rue Santeuil, ParisFriday January 24Institut du monde anglophone (Grand amphith&#233;&#226;tre)5 rue de l'&#201;cole de m&#233;decine, ParisMetro: Od&#233;on10:15 &#183; Opening Session10:30 - 12:00 &#183; Panel 1 &#183; Twitter FictionSophie Chapuis (Saint-Etienne University) Taipei (2013), a Pseudo-Autobiography: Tao Lin's Digital Inquiry into the SelfDaniella Gati (Brandeis University) The novel in the Age of TwitterVirginia Pignagnoli (University of Zaragoza) Audiences&#8217; Extensions of Storyworlds on Instagram: Hanya Yanagihara&#8217;s A Little Life, #alittlelife and @alittlelife12:00 - 13:30 &#183; Lunch13:30 - 15:00 &#183; Panel 2 &#183; Experimental WritingJason Shrontz (Gogebic Community College, Michigan)Losing Touch: The Coupling of Media Forms in Contemporary American FictionYves Abrioux (Paris 8) Towards an Uncreative Poetics. Kenneth Goldsmith&#8217;s reframed audio archives15:00 - 15:15 &#183; Coffee break15:15 - 16:15 &#183; Panel 3 &#183; Wallace &#38; DeLilloGabriel Smith (University of Edinburgh)&#8216;Imagining an Imprint&#8217;: Embodied Language and Posthumanist Gender in Don DeLillo&#8217;s Zero K and David Foster Wallace&#8217;s The Pale KingJessica Allen Hanssen (Nord University, Bod&#248;, Norway) David Foster Wallace&#8217;s Oblivion and the Limits of Technology16:15 - 16:30 &#183; Coffee break16:30 - 17:30 &#183; Panel 4 &#183; Postmodernism in the 21st CenturyAliette Ventejoux (University Paris II Panth&#233;on &#8211; Assas) Techne and logos: a study of the American Zeitgeist in &#8220;Hammer and Sickle&#8221; by Don DeLilloSaloua Karoui-Elounelli (Ecole Normale Sup&#233;rieure / University of Tunis) Poetics of representation and the artifact of the Postmodern Sublime in the American Experimental novel17:30 - 17:45 &#183; Coffee break17:45 - 18:45 &#183; Keynote Stephen Burn (University of Glasgow) The American Novel in the Age of Neuroscience 18:45 - 19:45 &#183; CocktailSaturday January 25&#201;cole normale sup&#233;rieure (salle des Actes)45, rue d'Ulm, Paris10:30 - 12:30 &#183; Panel 5 &#183; Data Worlds and the Return of CyberpunkOlga Thierbach McLean (independent researcher, author, and literary translator) Updating the Future to the Present: The Reboot of Cyberpunk as Social CriticismCurtis Carbonell (Khalifa University) Theorizing Fiction within a Virtualized Gameist Mode: the Promise of VR and its Imaginary WorldsNaomi Mandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Anatomy of a Hacker: Deciphering The Circle12:30 - 14:00 &#183; Lunch14:00 - 15:30 &#183; Panel 6 &#183; Pornography, Anxiety, TouchCam&#233;lia Raghinaru (Concordia University, Irvine)Technological Anxiety in Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s Chronic CityDavid Buehrer (Valdosta State University, Georgia, USA) A Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress for the Digital, Post-Human(ist) Age? : Computer Technology, Pornography, and Allegorical Representation in Russell Banks&#8217;s Lost Memory of SkinRebecca Mazumdar (City University of New York)&#8220;Immediately dismissed as fiction&#8221;: Technology Mediates the Graphic in Sabrina&#160;15:30 - 16:00 &#183; Coffee break16:00 - 17:00 &#183; Panel 7 &#183; Biotech and Bioart: Affective FuturityLejla Kucukalic (Khalifa University)American Fiction, Hybridity and BiotechnologyMiriam Fernandez-Santiago (University of Granada) Random Design: Aesthetic and Ethical Implications of Bioart in Richard Powers&#8217; Orfeo17:00 - 17:15 &#183; Coffee break17:15 - 18:15 &#183; Panel 9 &#183; New EpistemologiesH&#233;lo&#239;se Thomas (Bordeaux Montaigne University) Schr&#246;dinger&#8217;s Hello Kitty Lunchbox: Time, Technology, and the Future of Humanity in Contemporary American LiteratureStefania Iliescu (Rennes 2 University) "Do the math on that" &#8211; The Undermining of the Scientificity Criteria in The Echo Maker (2006) and The Flame Alphabet (2012)