Technopoïesis: Transmedia Mythologisation and the Unity of Knowedge

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate; Henry Sussman

doi:10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1056

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Published: 01-01-2017

Accepted: 23-01-2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1056

Keywords:

Consilience, Mythical technologies, New media, Semiotics, Strategic, narratives, Transmediality

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Comunidad de Madrid(Madri d)

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Asunción López-Varela Azcárate

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Complutense University of Madrid

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1616-5830 (unauthenticated)

Henry Sussman

Yale University

Abstract

It is difficult to explain why different disciplines are drawn to similar problems. Inter-relations are not always explainable by direct influence. It has been argued that any common ground derives from the fact that people share certain kinds of everyday experiences. Is ‘consilience’ or the unification of knowledge a utopia or a possibility, as William Whewell Edward Wilson would have it? This thematic issue of Icono14 explores the common premise underlying all human disciplines: the confirmation that technology has a direct impact upon sign production, distribution and reception and, thus, upon the entire system of human thought, cultural representation and cognition. The collection examines transmedial representations of technological advance by looking at their mythical shades of meanings as strategic narratives. As practical knowledge engaged in the creation and use of tools and machines as well as in the development of techniques and methods of organization that perform specific functions in making human life easier, the technologies of the past can shed some light on the future that emerging media can bring about for human groups.

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2017): TECHNOPOÏESIS: TRANSMEDIA MYTHOLOGISATION AND THE UNITY OF KNOWEDGE

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Author Biographies

Asunción López-Varela Azcárate, Complutense University of Madrid

Profesora del departamento de Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Más información en http://www.ucm.es/siim/asun-lopez-varela

Henry Sussman, Yale University

Visinting Professor Germanic Languajes & Literatures

How to Cite

Azcárate, A. L.-V., & Sussman, H. (2017). Technopoïesis: Transmedia Mythologisation and the Unity of Knowedge. Journal ICONO 14, 15(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v15i1.1056

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