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[…]

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.

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.