The CounterText Interview: Mark McGurl.

If one sets the bar as high as George Steiner does, we're of course unlikely to find a posthuman tragedy, or put differently, posthumanism is unlikely to (want to) produce a tragedy - two very different things. Whether one is talking about posthuman tragedy, or posthuman comedy - or, for that matter...

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Publicado en:CounterText Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 358 - 368
Autores principales: McGurl, Mark, Herbrechter, Stefan
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Publicado: Edinburgh University Press Dec2022
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