Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The question of transmission is irreducibly a technical and temporal affair. Great works are those that carry within themselves the enigma of their proper reception to come, as a proposition that is at once technical and “mystagogical.” In this sense, the model of transmission to come (at a time when the idea of Transmission based upon the authority of knowledge and a master no longer works) would have to be sought for among those societies that advance towards their past. Such is the case of certain works that appear like so many time-delay traps and which incorporate into their proper poiesis the problem and the uncertainty of their future reception, thus presenting themselves as works in the future anterior. Works with a built-in return-effect or delay-effect that must anticipate the technical conditions of memory and transmission to-day and to-come.
Source: Multitudes
Author: Yann Sérandour
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4255693611