Published: 2022-08-10

Narrative and Otherness in Jorge Carrión’s Membrana

Laro del Río Castañeda Logo ORCID , Claudia Sofía Benito Temprano Logo ORCID

Abstract

Jorge Carrión’s novel Membrana represents itself as a leaflet for the “21st Century Museum”. This intriguing premise produces in the contemporary reader a state of cognitive estrangement, as she needs to contemplate his present as the past. However, Carrión’s repertory of disconcerting strategies does not end here. His narrator is a female artificial intelligence that uses plural pronouns to identify herself (or themselves). Coming to terms with this machine will be the main purpose of the exhibition’s visitor, forced to make sense of an entangled history created by someone with a different sense of time, different ideas about cause-effect relations, and a different understanding of what truth is. This article’s aims is to describe the mechanisms used by Carrión to build the algorithm’s voice while exploring its political and epistemological possibilities.

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del Río Castañeda, L., & Benito Temprano, C. S. (2022). Narrative and Otherness in Jorge Carrión’s Membrana. Romanica Silesiana, 22(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2022.22.06

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022)
Published: 2023-05-12


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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