Per una definizione di “inconscio tecno-scopico”: straniamenti nella letteratura sperimentale di Giulia Niccolai e Patrizia Vicinelli

Abstract

By looking at the representation strategies in some works by Giulia Niccolai and Patrizia Vicinelli, two of the most female representatives of Italian experimental literature in the XX century, this article aims to provide a specific interpretation of the estrangement effect produced by the encounter between word, image and the scopic function of both the human eye and optical machines. This mimetic device will be discussed along Walter Benjamin’s and Rosalind Krauss’ definition of “optical unconscious”, as well as Franco Vaccari’s notion of “technological unconscious”, thus leading to a possible new heuristic concept: the “techno-scopic unconscious”.

Keywords

• Optical uncoscious
• Technological unconscious
• Techno-scopic unconscious
• Experimental novel
• Experimental poetry