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Literature—technology—media : towards a new technography

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01/2018
Author
Purdon, James
Keywords
PN Literature (General)
T Technology
T-NDAS
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Abstract
The recent medial turn in the humanities has brought with it an increasing focus on systems, devices, protocols, and other aspects of the technological mediation of culture. This article considers the two most prominent instances of technological inquiry — media archaeology and the theory of cultural techniques — in order to show how literary studies can learn from and contribute to the ongoing re-evaluation of the relationship between technology and culture. On the basis of a philological argument tracing the emergence of the concept of “technology” in classical rhetoric and its transformation during the first Industrial Revolution, the article develops a critique of the Enlightenment distinction between technology and discursivity, and calls for a new “technographic” understanding of the dialectic between the two.
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Purdon , J 2018 , ' Literature—technology—media : towards a new technography ' , Literature Compass , vol. 15 , no. 1 , e12432 . https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12432
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Literature Compass
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12432
ISSN
1741-4113
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12432
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19093

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