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The Ways of the Literary Mind in the Age of Technology

Leaning on Mark Turner's concept of the 'literary mind', the paper discusses the impact of technologically transposed reality/realities on human thought, also pointing to the figurative nature of language and of the involved mental processes as foundation to the human co-existence with technology. Taking interest in technologically invoked worlds which surpass the material concept of 'reality', and in related notions such as 'cyberreality' and 'hyperreality', the paper attempts to shed light on the nature and on the role of mental activities which bridge the gaps between different modes of human existence and enable their fusion into a new form of reality. The analysis leads to a conclusion that technology not only exploits the ‘ literary’ resources of human thought, but that it also enhances them, to the point of becoming a constructive element of the ‘ literariness’ upon which the contemporary world, as a global, media-transposed construct, maintains its semantic ‘ wholeness’ , despite the shattering and often irreconcilable differences lived and practiced within its actual life-spaces.

literary mind; technology; reality

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