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Article dans une revue Media Theory Année : 2022

Speaking into the Ear: Fecund Truth's Virgin Medium

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Contrary to the widespread view of myth as falsehood, its hermeneutic interpretation has long been seen as providing insight for life's conundrums. Peters' (1999) juxtaposition of perfect angelic exchanges of meaning with flawed human discourse opens up fresh approaches for examining communication's complexities. Religious thought has dealt intriguingly with the 'media problem' posed by angels and mortals' incommensurable difference. Muslim philosophy posits a subtle faculty of the creative imagination / active intellect as a pristine mediator between them. This article explores reparative potential for disinformation's chaos-inducing harm in our time through an intertextual study of old Jewish, Christian and Muslim narratives, in which speaking and hearing's relationship with truth is a core value. Scriptural discourses about the discerning mode of the Virgin Mary and the Prophet Muhammad's respective receptions of the Word offer understanding for engagement with our turbulent mediascape and underline the always current value of such symbolic narratives.
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halshs-03815809, version 1 (14-10-2022)

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Karim H Karim. Speaking into the Ear: Fecund Truth's Virgin Medium. Media Theory, 2022, Into the Air, 5 (2), pp.188-206. ⟨halshs-03815809⟩
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