Intermedial Reflections on Analogue Photography and Digital Visuality in Moxyland

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This article re-reads Lauren Beukes’s debut novel Moxyland (2008) through an intermedial lens, focusing on the text’s multiple “nested” references to images, as well techniques of “braiding” where visual effects are woven into prose itself. The ubiquitous presence photography in suggests a pervasive thematic and stylistic visuality, which at times mimics ways seeing camera lens. A key structuring binary concerns opposition between two fundamentally different forms image technologies, namely classical analogue digital imagery. These modes keyed main characters, but also freighted with aesthetic, ethical, political consequences. Photographs have classically authenticated existence real world front world, direct connection reality is increasingly tenuous, arbitrary random, opening up spectre totalitarian information control, fake news, media manipulation, citizens no longer any access truth pictures tell us what really has happened. novel, read this cautionary tale about future images technology, consequences that these shifts may society.

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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Literary Studies

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['0256-4718', '1753-5387']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/12031