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Introduction Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/novel/article-pdf/54/3/321/1469719/321armstrong.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 NANCY ARMSTRONG “The Beautiful Move” In quite different ways, the essays in this special issue address the claim, first voiced by Fredric Jameson in the 1980s, that literary space had somehow been taken over by the repetition of machinic time and instant communication at the cost of his- torical awareness. A cascade of landmark books and articles subsequently devel- oped from the argument of his Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capit- alism, inviting us to understand the present as an unchecked metastasis of the production of capital that has turned human actors into so many data points in a social order regulated on a 24-7 basis by the flow of information. How could those of us who focus on the novels now being written for a global readership be any less concerned with exactly how new communication technology greases the wheels for global capitalism’s penetration into more areas of human life? In our preoccupation with “the now,” however, we neglect to ask whether the onset of such an aggressive spatializing regime is as sudden as we make it out to be. Were we to locate the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novel Duke University Press

Introduction

Armstrong, Nancy; Armstrong, Nancy
Novel , Volume 54 (3) – Nov 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/novel/article-pdf/54/3/321/1469719/321armstrong.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 NANCY ARMSTRONG “The Beautiful Move” In quite different ways, the essays in this special issue address the claim, first voiced by Fredric Jameson in the 1980s, that literary space had somehow been taken over by the repetition of machinic time and instant communication at the cost of his- torical awareness. A cascade of landmark books and articles subsequently devel- oped from the argument of his Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capit- alism, inviting us to understand the present as an unchecked metastasis of the production of capital that has turned human actors into so many data points in a social order regulated on a 24-7 basis by the flow of information. How could those of us who focus on the novels now being written for a global readership be any less concerned with exactly how new communication technology greases the wheels for global capitalism’s penetration into more areas of human life? In our preoccupation with “the now,” however, we neglect to ask whether the onset of such an aggressive spatializing regime is as sudden as we make it out to be. Were we to locate the

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