âChildren of Our Ageâ: Digital Media and the Lie of Literature

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004362352_018

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In the shadow of the first of two recent, horrific terrorist attacks upon Paris, and responding to Szymborskaâs injunction in âChildren of Our Ageâ that âall affairs â yours, ours, theirs â are political affairs,â this chapter sets her poem in dialogue with both an online 2014 Vinevideo featuring the digital artist King Bach and Blanchotâs essayâ Rousseauâ to summon digital media toward substantive political and cultural changes once central to artistic practice. Szymborskaâs insistence that âwhatever you donât say speaks for itself,â and that âeven when you take to the woods/youâre taking political steps,â provides a context for this summons as does Blanchotâs notion that Rousseau risked his true nature in confronting a double bind between succumbing to the âevilâ of writing and the âlie of literature,â and giving over to a âravishing changeâ of âa new enthusiastic relationship with truth, freedom, and virtue.â The chapter argues that digital media must likewise risk recovering its initial idealistic fervor to likewise engage its audiences in something other than interactions that make no mark in the real world, instead presenting entanglements of the sort physicist and philosopher Karen Barad speaks of wherein ââpastâ and âfutureâ are iteratively reconfigured and enfolded through the worldâs ongoing intra-activity.â

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On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture

Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe

Series:Â Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 87

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Print Publication Date:: 25 May 2018

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