Abstract
Within a Latourian framework, literary works are seen as compositions1
embedded in a network of practices, rather than as communications that
use language as the preeminent medium. How can literary works be neither
communications from author to reader, or narrator to listener, nor texts
abstracted from the layers of contexts that make them possible? The experiment
to be performed in this chapter will examine the possibilities emerging from
the conceptual architecture provided by Bruno Latour’s networks and Isabelle
Stengers’s cosmopolitics and that enable an alternate compositional approach to
literary works.
embedded in a network of practices, rather than as communications that
use language as the preeminent medium. How can literary works be neither
communications from author to reader, or narrator to listener, nor texts
abstracted from the layers of contexts that make them possible? The experiment
to be performed in this chapter will examine the possibilities emerging from
the conceptual architecture provided by Bruno Latour’s networks and Isabelle
Stengers’s cosmopolitics and that enable an alternate compositional approach to
literary works.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Nonmodern Practices |
| Subtitle of host publication | Latour and Literary Studies |
| Editors | Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Claire Chi-ah Lyu |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pages | 217-230 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781501354298, 9781501354304 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781501354281 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Critical Theory
- Humanities
- negative critique
- Bruno Latour
- Latour, Bruno
- philosophy of hybrid world
- post-humanism