Gertrude Stein’s novella ‘Melanctha’ (1909) inscribed within the canon of Anglo-American modernism the conceptual coordinates for the emergence of a posthumanist aesthetics. The potential of such a radical event can be more fully appreciated by considering Stein’s pioneering treatment of meaning in the novella alongside Niklas Luhmann’s account of meaning in his theory of social systems. The essay emphasises the details of Stein’s crucial contribution to the articulation of a discourse of posthumanism and relates this occurrence to the emergence of a mass-media system at the beginning of the twentieth century.
MEANING WITHOUT SUBJECT ‘Melanctha’ and the Relation of Communication to the Human Mind
IULI, Maria Cristina
2014-01-01
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Gertrude Stein’s novella ‘Melanctha’ (1909) inscribed within the canon of Anglo-American modernism the conceptual coordinates for the emergence of a posthumanist aesthetics. The potential of such a radical event can be more fully appreciated by considering Stein’s pioneering treatment of meaning in the novella alongside Niklas Luhmann’s account of meaning in his theory of social systems. The essay emphasises the details of Stein’s crucial contribution to the articulation of a discourse of posthumanism and relates this occurrence to the emergence of a mass-media system at the beginning of the twentieth century.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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