She sees the woman knitter as “the evocatrix of war.” She quotes a convalescent officer of England as raving at women for sending men into battle.

This process of tropic change, once identified in nostalgia poems, can be applied to a range of new and emerging genres in various periods. Identifying the tropes of nostalgia, in other words, allows us to appreciate the process[…]

Whether modern organizations turn in the direction of an automated or informated workplace, the use of information systems allows information to assume a normative cast.

In one sense or another, each of the stories is about the creation of private fictions, reshapings of the world in order to make it walkable.