AS - Reflectional Encounters : Dans le Miroir à Retournement Temporel.

Abstract

An American author of digital hypertexts and innovative fictions reflects upon reflection. Benjamin’s notion of the dialectical image as well as the suspended present tense of Foucault’s heterotopic networked time inform reflections upon how Michael Joyce’s earlier digital and print fictions explore a punctuated temporality where the future and the past intermix and a newness bursts forth. Finally in discussing current collaborative work via speculations by physicist and artist Dominique Peysson, the time reversal mirror of the physicist Mathias Fink is offered as a way to consider the multinaéité of the technical body in networked space.

Keywords

• narrative
• punctuated temporality
• heterotempora
• multinaéité
• embodiment
• time reversal