Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary

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Within the hypermediated age where knowledge production is decentered and horizontal, the experience of lived time has become a concordance of temporalities, and thought concerning the world is now a thought concerning a plurality of worlds. By way of six guiding threads (exposition, media, controversy, publication, institutionalization, archaeology), this essay describes the transformation of cultural forms and visions of history.

Lionel Ruffel is professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the University of Paris VIII. He is author of Le denouement and Volodine post-exotique. Raymond N. MacKenzie is professor of English at the University of St. Thomas.