How to understand and read Amazon? Where to start the reading of this current version of the ‘technologizing of the word’ and which kind of human character does it result in (Ong 1988)? This article will explore these questions through focusing at Joana Moll’s The Hidden Life of an Amazon User (2019), with inclusion of other artworks, and Robert Musil’s novel The Man Without Qualities, published 1930–43.
Original language
English
Title of host publication
Practicing Sovereignty : Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Editors
Bianca Herlo, Daniel Irrgang, Gesche Joost, Andreas Unteidig
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Publication year
Dec 2021
Pages
357-368
ISBN (print)
978-3-8376-5760-9
ISBN (Electronic)
978-3-8394-5760-3
Publication status
Published - Dec 2021
Research areas
digital art, electronic literature, net art, Amazon, Climate change
