Melodrama of Possessive Agency

In the last decades, streams within posthumanism and new materialism, have turned their attention to phenomenon of agency. And they done so in ways which open for social cultural historical investigations, relevant studies literary alike. This article uses a concrete case—the melodramatic novel Koloss by Norwegian author Finn Alnæs—in order speculate on how form can be seen co-evolve—or this case, clash—with fluctuations history 1960s—the heydays cybernetics—a discrepancy observed, between nourishment individualism politics advertisement, distribution individual agency emerging technologies cybernetics, pushed as question forefront series novels, included. However, novel’s discussion was ignored critics, well scholarly literature follow. an effort get closer co-development ideas aesthetic form, asks why has been case. Did stand way its reflection agency? could reception therefore example existence complex feedback-loops, given culture form?