Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary

by Lionel Ruffel, Raymond N. MacKenzie

Overview

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, media, controversy, publication, institutionalization, archaeology), this essay describes the transformation of cultural forms and visions of history. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781517904883
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	01/31/2018
Series:	Univocal
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Lionel Ruffel is professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the University of Paris VIII. He is author of Le dénouement and Volodine post-exotique.

Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

First Series Exposition 27

Second Series Media 49

Third Series Publication 71

Fourth Series Controversy 95

Fifth Series Institutions 119

Sixth Series Archaeology 147

Conclusion: Locations of the Contemporary 173

Acknowledgments 187

Notes 189

Index 205