Animate Objects
Being, Obsolescence and the Limits of Citizenship in Gómez de la Serna
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10610663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert A Davidson, Rob Davidson (0000-0002-6667-9883, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 274-293 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mln.0.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2098904945 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
I consider not only how Ramón’s privileging of objects brings them to life—literally—as co-citizens alongside human characters but also how their innate obsolescence as things conditions a general understanding of the inanimate in Ramón’s work as a whole. I establish a theoretical understanding of “community” as it relates to the narrated built environment and then pinpoint how Ramón animates the inanimate while detailing its case for citizenship within his urban world. Having considered the animate object’s “birth” and possible integration as a citizen, I engage the other finite extreme: the ostensible death of the object through obsolescence
Business · Citizenship · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Obsolescence · Political science · Sociology · French Literature and Poetry · Law · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |