Hermes and Postmodern 'Creativity' - Pt4 of 'Alchemy and the Imagination' by Ian Irvine (Hobson)
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Posted: Thursday, October 21, 2010
This fourth essay in the sequence 'Alchemy and the Imagination' by Dr. Ian Irvine looks at 'alchemical' and 'Hermesian' aspects to: 1) Derrida's 'deconstructionist' thinking and, 2) the advent of a global digital/internet writing culture. The article concludes by offering a tentative list of features associated with a new contemporary 'poetics' of use to creative people and students of cultural change.
This piece belongs to Hermes and Sesheta: (Unheralded) Gods of the New Media Revolution, Vol. 2 ofThe Collected Works of Ian Irvine (Hobson). (Nonfiction)
Go to Scribd article 'Hermesian Poetics in a Postmodern World' copyright Dr. Ian Irvine, 2008-2010 all rights reserved. A much shorter version of this fourth article in the series 'Alchemy and the Imagination' was delivered to the Bendigo Writers' Council and general public as a talk in 2008.
CURRENT PUBLISHER: The Zoetics Institute (2016) (formerly: Mercurious press). The article is a chapter from the upcoming book: Hermes, Sesheta and Thoth: (Unheralded) Gods of the Postmodern Transition, to be published by the Zoetics Institute.
