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Actio, Narratio und das Gesicht der Dinge

Author(s): Steiner, Uwe C.

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Working with the example of the jar and other, wandering and deceitful objects of literary history, this paper tries to translate the reciprocal presupposition of openness and closure to a configuration of theory of action, figuration and narration. It thus deals with the question, how literarily open objects act. According to Luhmann and Latour, action can be connected to concepts of description: Be it that communication is reduced to action and only thus attributable to an agent, or that symbolic reference, attribution and recording account for significant strands in human and non-human contexts of action. Drawing upon selected examples from literary history, the paper pursuits such translations of narration into action and vice versa.

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Steiner, Uwe C.: Actio, Narratio und das Gesicht der Dinge. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 2 (2011), Nr. 1, S. 185-202. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18461.
@ARTICLE{Steiner2011,
 author = {Steiner, Uwe C.},
 title = {Actio, Narratio und das Gesicht der Dinge},
 year = 2011,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18461}",
 volume = 2,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {185--202},
}
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