Contemporary media theory has come along to recast the terms of conversations in the humanities, urging us to rethink the interrelations between technical media (or technicity in general) and the human condition. While these reconsiderations are posing important questions concerning technical media in their own right, they have also inspired new methodologies in literary studies. This course aims to examine how these theoretical propositions help us revise the ways in which literature embodies or responds to epistemic frameworks and changes in the physical world. Literary works are not to be taken merely as thematic clusters or representations of political ideologies and identitarian alignments; they are to be understood as complex intersections of the textual world and the world beyond, as material manifestation of processes of mediation. The current development in media theory is illuminating particularly in helping us broach “medium” broadly, allowing us to approach critically and innovatively not only media technologies but also all sorts of “medial objects.” In brief, this course is interested in the technically mediated experience manifest in literature.