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@article{ART002382833},
author={SEONJOO PARK},
title={Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2018},
volume={75},
number={3},
pages={221-243},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221}

TY - JOUR
AU - SEONJOO PARK
TI - Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2018
VL - 75
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 221
EP - 243
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This paper examines the possibility that comparative literature might become relevant in the posthuman age, mainly focusing on the issue of reading. Language has been transforming itself constantly through the interaction with media, thus becoming increasingly artificial and mechanical. Even the most radical linguistic theories have been constituted through the global translation from science and technology. Human beings and machines, literary language and media, science and humanities do not compete; instead, they are deeply implicated from the very beginning of their constitution. In this context, the core ideas such ‘humanity’, ‘universality’ or ‘literariness’ for comparative literature are being challenged. ‘Close reading’ as a representative methodology does not cope with such a challenge, and to devise a different way to read, we need to establish the genealogy of reading in a Foucauldian sense. That way, the ideological, social and historical limitations of ‘close reading’ can be revealed more clearly. Comparative literature, when reading itself from the outside, might be able to deal with the artificiality of languages and texts, and think of the other — posthuman — forms of humanity.
KW - Media;Artificial Language;Comparative Literature;Posthuman;Close Reading
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221
ER -

SEONJOO PARK. (2018). Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 75(3), 221-243.

SEONJOO PARK. 2018, "Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.75, no.3 pp.221-243. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK "Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 75.3 pp.221-243 (2018) : 221.

SEONJOO PARK. Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language. 2018; 75(3), 221-243. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK. "Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 75, no.3 (2018) : 221-243.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK. Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 75(3), 221-243. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK. Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2018; 75(3) 221-243. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK. Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language. 2018; 75(3), 221-243. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221

SEONJOO PARK. "Comparative Literature in the Posthuman Age: How to Read Artificial Language" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 75, no.3 (2018) : 221-243.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.75.3.201808.221