International Council for Media Literacy

Bridging Academia to Action

International Council for Media Literacy
Bridging Academia to Action

Author Profile: Jae Sharpe

  • Jae Sharpe
    Jae Sharpe recently received her doctorate from the University of British Columbia. She specializes in U.S. literature, postmodernism and the development of the Internet in the postwar era. Her work examines the relationship between digital media and civic life as represented in fiction.

“Profits as the Telos”: The Logic of Reaganomics and Wallace’s Technologies of Efficiency

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Abstract David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel The Pale King considers the IRS’s usage of the fictional ANADA (Audit-No Audit Discriminant Algorithm) as a tool for maximizing profit and increasing taxpayer compliance using the threat of information-based surveillance. Despite being a government entity, the novel’s IRS begins to increasingly resemble a for-profit corporation, … [Read more...] about “Profits as the Telos”: The Logic of Reaganomics and Wallace’s Technologies of Efficiency

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