Book contents
- Globalization and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Globalization and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Chapter 6 Joseph Conrad, the Global and the Sea
- Chapter 7 Mutual Equality
- Chapter 8 Edward Said
- Chapter 9 The New McWorld Order
- Chapter 10 Pharmakon, Difference and the Arche-Digital
- Chapter 11 Time–Space Compression
- Chapter 12 The Matter of Blackness in World Literature
- Chapter 13 World-Systems, Literature and Geoculture
- Chapter 14 World Author
- Part III Application
- References
- Index
Chapter 10 - Pharmakon, Difference and the Arche-Digital
from Part II - Development
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2022
- Globalization and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Globalization and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Development
- Chapter 6 Joseph Conrad, the Global and the Sea
- Chapter 7 Mutual Equality
- Chapter 8 Edward Said
- Chapter 9 The New McWorld Order
- Chapter 10 Pharmakon, Difference and the Arche-Digital
- Chapter 11 Time–Space Compression
- Chapter 12 The Matter of Blackness in World Literature
- Chapter 13 World-Systems, Literature and Geoculture
- Chapter 14 World Author
- Part III Application
- References
- Index
Summary
The world and the globe are digital and inscriptive events. Before the advent of digital media in its narrow sense, conceptions of humanity presuppose a shared globe and horizon of sense; this presupposed harmony requires various technical systems that also threaten to produce an entropic dissolution. If globalism is the assumed common horizon of sense, hyperglobalism promises the destruction of communalism and the possibility of other worlds.
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- Globalization and Literary Studies , pp. 159 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022