The expansion of Novels

In Franco Moretti's article, he explores the history of novels and their trends. He shifts the perspective of reading novels from viewing them each individually and in catagories to seeing all literary works as a whole over time. Moretti really takes a historical approach to literature. He attempts to attain more objectivity by looking at statistics and graphs, instead of the actual individual books of the time. He believes that novels are meant to be seen as a collection of individual stories and that they are not simply fragments that represent different sides of the whole. His perspective, in theory, is beneficial and would provide an all together more complete understanding of literature. But, the reality is that no one can read all of the books and that the statistics that he uses to generate trends are still based on a consensus that may not agree with each person's individual perspective. In many ways, his approach to literature defeats the purpose of novels. Novels are designed to give a personal perspective to diversity in time, culture, race, gender, and many other qualities. By combining novels with statistics and history, their individuality and diversification are either decreased or erased.

SSTLS could potentially be combined very easily with biology. By percieving it as a science fiction novel, SSTLS introduces nanotechnology, an array of questionable pathogens, organ transplants, and many other feasible scientific advancements/discoveries. My first question would be how does the post-human services company plan on replaces brain cells, which never divide, and if they were replaced a person would not retain their memories. Although personally, I think that the science in SSTLS was used merely to incite fear and disgust within the reader, instead of wonder and excitement for the possibles of science.