Two more " inter " : Intermediality and Interculturality

In these two nouns, the preposition functions differently still. Intermediality draws attention to the fundamental impurity of the media. No media product - whether considered text, image, sound or movement - can do without the often almost imperceptible integration of elements or aspects of other media. Partners in this reflection are the IMS institute, " intermedial and Multi-modal Studies " at the Linnaeus University in Väjxö, Sweden, and Asetel, the Asociación Española de Teoría de la Literatura, with its NarTrans and FicTrans programs, at the University of Granada. I participate in both centers. In interculturality, the opposite is true : due to hostility between groups, phobias of otherness, cultural ills such as ethnocentrism and racism have had free rein.