Eye to I: American Autofiction and Its Contexts from Jerzy Kosinski to Dave Eggers

The article gives a short introduction to the new field of “economic science fictions” and discusses an economic approach to science fiction focusing on the class aspect of utopian and anti-utopian science fiction. By tracing a common interest in the new regimes of accumulation and exploitation of cognitive labor between Cognitive Capitalism and Dave Eggers’ anti-utopian novel The Circle, the article highlights the dangerous dynamic between class-specific utopian desire and new forms of technologically driven economic exploitation.

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Philip Caputo, Acts Of Faith; Dave Eggers, What Is the What

Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction ◽

10.4324/9780203802472-7 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 38-57

Keyword(s):

Dave Eggers

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Jerzy Kosinski: January 1978

Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay ◽

10.5040/9781501348389.ch-001 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Jerzy Kosinski

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Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski

The Missouri Review ◽

10.1353/mis.1983.0003 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 155-171

Author(s):

Jerome Klinkowitz

Keyword(s):

Jerzy Kosinski

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The Silicon Valley Novel

Literature & History ◽

10.1177/0306197318755680 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 81-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martin Paul Eve ◽

Joe Street

Keyword(s):

Literary History ◽

Thomas Pynchon ◽

Don Delillo ◽

Silicon Valley ◽

First Century ◽

Literary Fiction ◽

American Fiction ◽

Bay Area ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Dave Eggers

In this article we propose that one of the emergent, but under-charted, and as yet unnamed thematic strands in recent American fiction and that contributes to recent literary history is that of the ‘Silicon Valley novel’. The trend can be seen in the literary fiction of Tony Tulathimutte, Jarett Kobek, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Dave Eggers, to name but a few, but also in the trilogy of novels by Ann Bridges dubbed, ‘The Silicon Valley Trilogy’. Silicon Valley novels are concerned with the emergent technological industry in the Bay Area but they are also of a specific periodising moment. Hence, while named for the geography, we here situate the Silicon Valley novel as more tied to time in the early twenty-first century.

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