EXCESS AS LANGUAGE PEST: LITERATURA AS ANTIDOTE? (LANGUAGES, TECHNOLOGIES, SUPERABUNDANCE OF IMAGES)

• Main Author: Renato Cordeiro Gomes
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense 2004-07-01
• Series: Gragoatá
• Subjects: superabundância de imagens; Italo Calvino; Ricardo Piglia.
• Online Access: http://www.gragoata.uff.br/index.php/gragoata/article/view/575

We can consider as a starting point the installation City of São Sebastião: a journey through times and spaces of Rio de Janeiro, produced by the videomaker Marcello Dantas (1996), with a view to bringing together the relationships between technologies and superabundance of images, which generate the saturation of information. We can associate this excess with what Italo Calvino named "language pest" and with what Ricardo Piglia links to the "deliberate obscurity of the language converted into an occupied territory", stating that literature should function as a kind of antidote. Both writers, therefore, discuss the values of literature and language, which characterize their proposals for this millennium.