Zara Dinnen is a lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Birmingham. She is coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (2018).

Zara Dinnen clearly and forcefully articulates the importance of her new concept, the "digital banal," as well as the way it plays out across multiple social and aesthetic practices. Nothing could be more fundamentally important than the everyday, now utterly embedded in the digital. The Digital Banal empowers us not just to see ourselves as we now are but to become active participants in everyday digital life. -- Lori Emerson, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking with the Digital Banal1. David Fincher’s Grammar of Code2. Jonathan Lethem’s and Mark Amerika’s Common Writing3. Being Social in a Postdigital World in Catfish and How Should a Person Be?4. Twenty Years of Californian Ideology in The Bug and The Circle5. Refresh, Update, Wait, or, Living with the Digital Banal in Chronic City and Refresh Refresh6. Speculating on the Real Estate of the Digital BanalConclusion: After the Digital BanalNotesBibliographyIndex

Zara Dinnen is a lecturer in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Birmingham. She is coeditor of The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories (2018).

Zara Dinnen clearly and forcefully articulates the importance of her new concept, the "digital banal," as well as the way it plays out across multiple social and aesthetic practices. Nothing could be more fundamentally important than the everyday, now utterly embedded in the digital. The Digital Banal empowers us not just to see ourselves as we now are but to become active participants in everyday digital life. -- Lori Emerson, University of Colorado, Boulder

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking with the Digital Banal1. David Fincher’s Grammar of Code2. Jonathan Lethem’s and Mark Amerika’s Common Writing3. Being Social in a Postdigital World in Catfish and How Should a Person Be?4. Twenty Years of Californian Ideology in The Bug and The Circle5. Refresh, Update, Wait, or, Living with the Digital Banal in Chronic City and Refresh Refresh6. Speculating on the Real Estate of the Digital BanalConclusion: After the Digital BanalNotesBibliographyIndex