Devin William Daniels
Biographic Data
| ID | 1636157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin William Daniels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin William |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniels |
| SIGNATURE | DANIELS D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Always Be Prepared
We would appear to live in an era when the power of fiction is on the wane. Despite many private universities' endowments' growth to record heights during an ongoing (and partially college-fueled) pandemic, literature departments face uncertain futures and the ranks of un- and underemployed literary critics grow with each PhD defense. The import of fiction in such a historical moment is far from obvious. While we might turn inward for answers—to …
Everybody's Statistical Record
This essay approaches Richard Wright's naturalist novel Native Son (1940) as a statistically informed project that explores probability and potentiality not as theoretical concepts but as material and historical phenomena instantiated by the emerging statistical governance of the New Deal state. I demonstrate the ways Bigger is rendered as information throughout the novel to show that Wright's work anticipates how the state was increasingly relyi…
Everybody's Statistical Record
This essay approaches Richard Wright's naturalist novel Native Son (1940) as a statistically informed project that explores probability and potentiality not as theoretical concepts but as material and historical phenomena instantiated by the emerging statistical governance of the New Deal state. I demonstrate the ways Bigger is rendered as information throughout the novel to show that Wright's work anticipates how the state was increasingly relyi…
Always Be Prepared
We would appear to live in an era when the power of fiction is on the wane. Despite many private universities' endowments' growth to record heights during an ongoing (and partially college-fueled) pandemic, literature departments face uncertain futures and the ranks of un- and underemployed literary critics grow with each PhD defense. The import of fiction in such a historical moment is far from obvious. While we might turn inward for answers—to …
Everybody's Statistical Record
This essay approaches Richard Wright's naturalist novel Native Son (1940) as a statistically informed project that explores probability and potentiality not as theoretical concepts but as material and historical phenomena instantiated by the emerging statistical governance of the New Deal state. I demonstrate the ways Bigger is rendered as information throughout the novel to show that Wright's work anticipates how the state was increasingly relyi…
Algorithm (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Genealogy (1 work) · History (1 work) · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (1 work)