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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Things and Ideas of Community in the Literary Works of Matthias Zschokke.
Description: Recorded April 25, 2023.
An in-person seminar by Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Dariusz Komorowski (University of Wroclaw) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Seminar Series.
After decades of being trapped in discourse, where signs referred to other signs rather than reality, sentences were quotations or paraphrases of other sentences, and texts built on other texts, permanently questioning their own meaning and truth, a need for stability beyond discourse emerged in the 1990s. One turned to matter, which was reawakened from its slumber to join man as a reliable partner. Bruno Latour, Michel Callon...