Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

"1897–1990. Modern Figures of Chance: Accidents and Procedures"

Alison James
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Julia Jordan
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Benoît Monginot
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Jason Puskar
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Sarah Troche
Christina Vogel
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Résumé

Chance in the twentieth century is associated with a plethora of new scientific theories and technological developments, from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to information theory and the computer rendering of stochastic models. At the same time, chance is linked to a crisis of rationality and to a heightened awareness of accident and catastrophe that occupy a central place in modernist and postmodernist narratives. The literary and artistic avant-gardes of the century are alert to chance as a site of aesthetic potential, seeking not simply to represent it but also to exploit or harness it in the form of specific procedures, from coin tossing to complex combinatorial mechanisms; they develop systems and strategies which, like the processes discovered by contemporary science, may be both deterministic and unpredictable. These practices both decentre the authority of the artist and reflect a profound sense of the contingency of the work of art, within a universe made up of complex interconnections and irreversible change.

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hal-05296046 , version 1 (03-10-2025)

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Sébastien Wit, Alison James, Julia Jordan, Isabelle Krzywkowski, Benoît Monginot, et al.. "1897–1990. Modern Figures of Chance: Accidents and Procedures". Figures of Chance. Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries), I, Routledge, 2024, ⟨10.4324/9781003329053⟩. ⟨hal-05296046⟩
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