On Being (Social), Selfhood and the Creative Experience in the Digital Age in Clara Janés’ Vilanos (E-mails) (2004)

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Abstract

Clara Janés intertwines contemporary e-communication and Spanish medieval mysticism to envision the texture of social experience, selfhood and creativity in the digital age. Vilanos (E-mails) invokes e-mailing’s mystical dimensions: cyberspace’s effacement of time and space and the cybernetic undoing of the self. Interrogating encounters with electronic ‘otherness’ in the cybernetic void, a digitized form of spiritual pilgrimage emerges, encompassing a search for self-knowledge and aesthetic intuition. Confronting the limitations of social connection through technological mediation, the digital’s invitation to self-encounter, nevertheless, can reveal the aleatory complexities of the self, cosmos and poetry itself, characterized by indeterminacy and constant movement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1293-1319
Number of pages27
JournalBulletin of Spanish Studies
Volume99
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Clara Janés
  • Creative experience
  • Digital age
  • Electronic communication
  • Knowledge
  • Mysticism
  • Poetry
  • Selfhood
  • Social experience
  • Vilanos (E-mails)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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