Open AccessScientific Haze
Author(s) -
Goran Mijic
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
linguistik online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1615-3014
DOI - 10.13092/lo.12.893
Subject(s) - realm , representation (politics) , haze , scientific theory , epistemology , aesthetics , sociology , computer science , history , art , philosophy , political science , geography , politics , meteorology , archaeology , law
This essay concentrates on scientific-rationalist discourses entering massively the realm of literature at the beginning of the 20th century. They open new horizons revealing phenomena unknown before on the one side, but they also obscure the world around us providing convenient screen from painful truths on the other. This paper tries to demonstrate how technological discourses move the reader from a highly visual receptive position to a pure cognitive realm of symbolic representations with its own dynamics. The scientific-rationalist discourses produce a new parallel reality, a scientific haze tending to withdraw from visual representation.