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<nettime-ann> new issue of transversal web journal: the language of things |
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the language of things According to Walter Benjamin, the human being's
relationship to things
is not characterized by the relation of a being capable of language to
a mute
reality of objects, but rather corresponds to a “relationship
of media of differing density”.
Consequently, one of the crucial points of Benjamin's reflections is
the concept of a “language of things” and the question of translating
this
language into that of human beings. Partly tying into this concept
directly,
partly in loose or implicit reference to it, this edition of the web
journal
investigates various aspects of these kinds of translation processes
between things
and humans. The articles collected here address the “magical” aspects of
Benjamin's theory of language and the
interweaving of language, the use of things and economic, social
valuations,
the translations of geo-political spaces in experiences of migration,
and the
effects of certain communication technology things, which are found
installed
in our lives as immediate posts of mediality. http://translate.eipcp.net/transversal/0107 Kathrin Busch: The Language
of Things and The Magic
of Language. On Walter Benjamin’s Concept of Latent Potency New texts in the “thematic
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