A Virtual Problem of Nineteenth-Century Culture: Methodological Considerations for Rethinking Realism
Keywords:
philosophy of literature, aesthetic experience, realism, virtualization, post-structuralism, Deleuze, GillesAbstract
Using Gilles Deleuze’s idea of virtualization, this paper argues that realism should be reconsidered as a collective problematization of an ontology of the everyday. It charts an alternative to the pragmatic critique of post-structuralism, taking up the problem of representation, the history of description, aesthetics, scale, modeling and outlines a counter-model to the concept of the “social imaginary”.References
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