Heather A. Love

Bio

Heather A. Love is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, and her research draws on the interdisciplinary field of cybernetics to explore connections between early twentieth-century literary and technological discourses. Her work has appeared in Modernism/modernity, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.

Contributions

Modernism, Cybernetics, and Systems Theory: Disciplinary Relevance in a STEM-focused World

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In 1926, Gertrude Stein delivered the lecture “ Composition as Explanation” to the Cambridge Literary Club at Oxford University (fig. 1). The talk couches a description of her own evolution as an experimental author within a broader discussion of history, culture, and art as a series of distinct “composition[s].”As Kristin Bergen helpfully explains, the “multivocal term” composition at once designates “the dominant mode of daily life for a given period and also the production of those who...

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digital humanities cybernetics technology