Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary |
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| Author:
| Ruffel, Lionel
MacKenzie, Raymond N. |
| Series title: | Univocal Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5179-0488-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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Within the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of temporalities. The literary imagination, which was emblematic of modernity and thoroughly connected to the book as a support structure, has now become integrated within a much vaster regime of publication. Thought concerning the world is from now on a thought concerning a plurality of worlds. By way of six guiding threads (exposition,...
More DescriptionWithin the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of temporalities. The literary imagination, which was emblematic of modernity and thoroughly connected to the book as a support structure, has now become integrated within a much vaster regime of publication. Thought concerning the world is from now on a thought concerning a plurality of worlds. By way of six guiding threads (exposition, media, controversy, publication, institutionalization, archaeology), this essay describes the transformation of cultural forms and visions of history.