Science, literature, technology, and Borges’ «The Library of Babel»: a pataphysics for postnormal times

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https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.15.2024.389-418

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borges, science and literature, philosophy of technology, pataphysics, postnormal times, literature and philosophy

Abstract

This essay reflects on the relationship between science, technology and literature based on Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” and pataphysics, in the context of postnormality (Sardar), post-truth (Harsin) and technological development. The main notions we address are the roles ascribed in art and technology to imagination, information seeking and (big) data analysis. We will investigate the potential of ambivalence, contradiction, and uncertainty to create a hermeneutics for our times and present new frameworks for interpreting Borges.

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  • Zofia Grzesiak, , Universidad de Varsovia (Polonia)

    Zofia Grzesiak is an assistant professor at the Institute of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies at the University of Warsaw, where she teaches Spanish-American and comparative literature and is the tutor of the Student Association "Latin American Literature Reading Club". Her doctoral thesis entitled "The phenomenon of reading in the work of Roberto Bolaño. Strategies and reception practices of the author, the protagonists and the reader" (2019) won the prize of the Polish Association of Hispanists. She is currently a fellow of the National Science Centre (NCN) carrying out the project "Borges and pataphysics".

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Published

2024-07-21

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No. 15 (2024)

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ARTICLES

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Science, literature, technology, and Borges’ «The Library of Babel»: a pataphysics for postnormal times. (2024). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 15, 389-418. https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.15.2024.389-418