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Literature and Technology: Nature’s “Lawful Offspring in Man’s Art”

questions, each of them vast and complex. The first concerns the technologies contributing to and shaping the formation of the activities and institutions of literature throughout history. The second comprises the matter of technology as represented in or by literature. I shall be more concerned with the second of these than the first. A third question, as to whether literature is itself a technology, will be considered shortly. A trivially technological response to being asked to discuss literature and technology might be to inquire in the language by which many of us cope with databases what sort of Boolean operator the "and" in this case is. As a rubric it could cover: Literature "about"