Narración y otredad en „Membrana”, de Jorge Carrión
Narrative and Otherness in Jorge Carrión’s „Membrana”
Author(s): Laro Del Río Castañeda, Claudia Sofía Benito TempranoSubject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Semiotics / Semiology, Studies of Literature, Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Other Language Literature, Renaissance Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Culture and social structure , Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: narrative theory; otherness; posthumanism; contemporary Spanish literature; Jorge Carrión
Summary/Abstract: Jorge Carrión’s novel Membrana represents itself as a leaflet for the “21st Century Museum”. This intriguing premise produces in the contemporary reader a state of cognitive estrangement, as she needs to contemplate his present as the past. However, Carrión’s repertory of disconcerting strategies does not end here. His narrator is a female artificial intelligence that uses plural pronouns to identify herself (or themselves). Coming to terms with this machine will be the main purpose of the exhibition’s visitor, forced to make sense of an entangled history created by someone with a different sense of time, different ideas about cause-effect relations, and a different understanding of what truth is. This article’s aims is to describe the mechanisms used by Carrión to build the algorithm’s voice while exploring its political and epistemological possibilities.
Journal: Romanica Silesiana
- Issue Year: 2/2022
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 1-13
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Spanish