On Being (Social), Selfhood and the Creative Experience in the Digital Age in Clara Janés’ Vilanos (E-mails) (2004)

• Anna Torres-Cacoullos ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 99, Nº 8, 2022, págs. 1293-1319
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Clara Janés intertwines contemporary e-communication and Spanish medieval mysticism to envision the texture of social experience, selfhood and creativity in the digital age. Vilanos (E-mails) invokes e-mailing’s mystical dimensions: cyberspace’s effacement of time and space and the cybernetic undoing of the self. Interrogating encounters with electronic ‘otherness’ in the cybernetic void, a digitized form of spiritual pilgrimage emerges, encompassing a search for self-knowledge and aesthetic intuition. Confronting the limitations of social connection through technological mediation, the digital’s invitation to self-encounter, nevertheless, can reveal the aleatory complexities of the self, cosmos and poetry itself, characterized by indeterminacy and constant movement.