Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’

ABSTRACT: This study explores how postdigital technology impacts on the global, and how it results in the modification not only of the configuration and representation of the global, but also of cultural and linguistic practices, which can now be considered postglobal in nature. In the novel ‘Vor de...

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Autor: Llamas Ubieto, Miriam
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:821.112.2Varatharajah, Senthuran7vor.07
Global
Postglobal
Postdigital
Digital
Globalization
‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
Senthuran Varatharajah
Filología alemana
Literatura
Prosa
Escritores
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
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spelling Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’Llamas Ubieto, Miriam821.112.2Varatharajah, Senthuran7vor.07GlobalPostglobalPostdigitalDigitalGlobalization‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’Senthuran VaratharajahFilología alemanaLiteraturaProsaEscritores6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica LiterariasABSTRACT: This study explores how postdigital technology impacts on the global, and how it results in the modification not only of the configuration and representation of the global, but also of cultural and linguistic practices, which can now be considered postglobal in nature. In the novel ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’ (2016), by Senthuran Varatharajah, digital media and its relationship with language are inseparable from the issue of globalization. Here, the term “globalization” has a dual meaning, owing to the inherent ambivalence between the materiality and immateriality of the Postdigital. Firstly, the Internet has become an intermediary of cultural connections, while simultaneously reincorporating, remediating and feeding off the physical and cultural space. As such, it plays its role in the figuration of interconnections, which are in turn linked to global coordinates. Secondly, the immateriality of the space itself and the evanescence of its spatial distances and pathways point towards a reconceptualization, or the suspension of global coordinates in a geopolitical sense. Put another way, they point towards the Postglobal.Erich Schmidt VerlagUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20232023-01-0120232023-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/128526reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)InglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020 RTI2018-094607-B-I00 REC-LIT: RECICLAJES CULTURALES: TRANSLITERATURAS EN LA ERA POSTDIGITALopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1285262026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
title Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
spellingShingle Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
Llamas Ubieto, Miriam
821.112.2Varatharajah, Senthuran7vor.07
Global
Postglobal
Postdigital
Digital
Globalization
‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
Senthuran Varatharajah
Filología alemana
Literatura
Prosa
Escritores
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
title_short Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
title_full Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
title_fullStr Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
title_full_unstemmed Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
title_sort Configurations of the Global in the Postdigital Era through ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Llamas Ubieto, Miriam
author Llamas Ubieto, Miriam
author_facet Llamas Ubieto, Miriam
author_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 821.112.2Varatharajah, Senthuran7vor.07
Global
Postglobal
Postdigital
Digital
Globalization
‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
Senthuran Varatharajah
Filología alemana
Literatura
Prosa
Escritores
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
topic 821.112.2Varatharajah, Senthuran7vor.07
Global
Postglobal
Postdigital
Digital
Globalization
‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’
Senthuran Varatharajah
Filología alemana
Literatura
Prosa
Escritores
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
description ABSTRACT: This study explores how postdigital technology impacts on the global, and how it results in the modification not only of the configuration and representation of the global, but also of cultural and linguistic practices, which can now be considered postglobal in nature. In the novel ‘Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen’ (2016), by Senthuran Varatharajah, digital media and its relationship with language are inseparable from the issue of globalization. Here, the term “globalization” has a dual meaning, owing to the inherent ambivalence between the materiality and immateriality of the Postdigital. Firstly, the Internet has become an intermediary of cultural connections, while simultaneously reincorporating, remediating and feeding off the physical and cultural space. As such, it plays its role in the figuration of interconnections, which are in turn linked to global coordinates. Secondly, the immateriality of the space itself and the evanescence of its spatial distances and pathways point towards a reconceptualization, or the suspension of global coordinates in a geopolitical sense. Put another way, they point towards the Postglobal.
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