Article ID: CBB877300777

Dis/connections: Toward an Ontology of Broken Relationality (2019)

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Ideas of relationality have come to influence a wide range of theoretical fields. In this article, we develop an understanding of relationality as not necessarily something continuous and uninterrupted (as is often the case), but rather as something fundamentally shaped through breaks and interruptions. We work through notions of relational brokenness by "thinking with" the telephone as an intriguing relational technology, a material metaphor, and a discursive device. The argument moves between Derrida's telephone fascination; the metaphorical black telephone in Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy"; Proust's narrator waiting for a call from his grandmother in "The Guermantes Way"; and the communication breakdown in Lady Gaga's "Telephone." What the telephone allows for in this discussion is a way of thinking of not only technology as inherently fractured, but also our very ways of relating, connecting, and being in the world.

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Description On the use of the telephone as a relational technology as found in 20th- and 21st-cetntury literature and arts.


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Authors & Contributors
Mitcham, Carl
Rafaela Hillerbrand
Seamus Bradley
Karim P. Y. Thébault
Bistra Vasileva
Claudia Eckert
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of technology
Ontology
Technology
Metaphors; analogies
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Ancient
19th century
Places
Greece
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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