Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and CommunicationBeyond the Word provides as implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further, radical stage of modernism. Theall argues that Joyce anticipated many of the insights of semiotics, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. Moreover, Joyce and other modern artists differed from their predecessors in exhibiting a greater sense of their place within a dynamic, multifaceted field of communication. Thus, long before the emergence of postmodernism, these radical modernists posed an implicit challenge to the traditional notion of art as a privileged sphere. Beyond the Word situates artistic expression within a broad ecology of communication alongside genres such as comics, games, ads, videos, and slogans of spontaneous protest. Within this context, Theall reconsiders the contributions of Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Gregory Bateson, and Kenneth Burke to our contemporary understanding of communication, and looks at artists as disparate as Dusan Makavejev, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Pope, Rabelais, William Gibson, Gene Roddenberry, and Wyndham Lewis. |
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... function of the unavoidably pragmatic ' ecological ' role of the activity . It is also a function of the situation that cultural producers who actively explore new potentialities are in that very process raising theoretical questions ...
... function of the unavoidably pragmatic ' ecological ' role of the activity . It is also a function of the situation that cultural producers who actively explore new potentialities are in that very process raising theoretical questions ...
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... function to serve in exploring and understanding the phenomena of communication takes on renewed significance . Can the poetic really be part of an ecology of communication - an ecology of sense ? One of the questions raised by this ...
... function to serve in exploring and understanding the phenomena of communication takes on renewed significance . Can the poetic really be part of an ecology of communication - an ecology of sense ? One of the questions raised by this ...
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... function is among other things , to practice and make more perfect communication of this kind.'3o Bateson differentiates his concept of unconsciousness from that of Freud , since he holds that many important areas of social knowledge ...
... function is among other things , to practice and make more perfect communication of this kind.'3o Bateson differentiates his concept of unconsciousness from that of Freud , since he holds that many important areas of social knowledge ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
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