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From Gaming the System:”Working both centrifugally and centripetally from the relations of production of The Cultural Logic of Computation itself (not least in its status as a “tenure book”), Golumbia seats the female or feminized operators of a domestic workforce democratized by war’s exigency at the controls of the computer as world-war machine, suggestively linking the feminized technocratic class of the intellectuals to the subjugation-within-subjugation of the human computer under masculinist technocratic administration.” From Gaming the System:”Working both centrifugally and centripetall… continue

From Gaming the System: “Without a doubt, McGurl’s comparatively steady poise is an asset, in so far as in its best pages, the work of The Program Era invites a response remote from the customary conflict mode, with its irresistibly predictable autocritical “problematizations.” But as we have noted, that, perhaps, is only one way of marking, in its contradistinctive change, in both of these undeductibly appraisable works, the danger of ending by merely, as it were, gaming the System: the custom Golumbia marks as a “style of authority,” and for which his final example is Bill Gates and S From G… continue

From Gaming the System: “Such dubiety is conspicuous in Golumbia’s inventive critique of Chomsky, which, far from accepting that Chomsky has any place on the left at all, near or far, banishes him unceremoniously to the right of The Cultural Logic of Computation’s epistemo-political fold. From Gaming the System: “Such dubiety is conspicuous in Golumbia’s inventive critique of Chomsky, which, far from accepting that Chomsky has any place on the left at all, near or far, banishes him unceremoniously to the right of The Cultural Logic of Computation’s epistemo-political fold. Chomsky as “citation… continue

Throughout this riposte, Golumbia directly quotes and responds to assertions made by Brian Lennon in his book review of Golumbia’s The Cultural Logic of Computation and Mark McGurl’s The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Lennon’s review can be accessed here: Gaming the System as well as via the “Riposte To” link above. Additionally, longer quotes that provide a bit more context are also provided in the glosses below. Throughout this riposte, Golumbia directly quotes and responds to assertions made by Brian Lennon in his book review of Golumbia’s The Cultural Logic… continue