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45Love EverythingSymposium 20 (1): 91-105. 2016.One of the questions that Gilles Deleuze explores is the relationship between cinema and belief: can cinema restore the broken link between us and the world? Does modern cinema have the power to give us ‘reasons to believe in this world’? My case study for exploring the question of belief in cinema, or what I call a Bazinian cinephilia, is Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life (2011); a film whose sublime aesthetics and unorthodox religiosity have provoked polarized critical responses, but whose am…Read more
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Ereignis, Technology, Art: Poetic Dwelling in the Later HeideggerLiterature & Aesthetics 16 (1): 81-94. 2006.
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76Cavellian Meditations: How to do Things with Film and PhilosophyFilm-Philosophy 18 (1): 50-69. 2014.Stanley Cavell's writing on film has been an important inspiration for the recent 'philosophical turn' in film theory. But few studies have explored the significance of Cavell's style of writing, how it communicates his distinctive manner of thinking with film. This article explores Cavell's style as a way of doing philosophy, and suggests that his attempt to capture the aesthetic experience of film in evocative prose makes an important contribution to developing new ways of thinking in film-phi…Read more
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9A book review of 'Diagrams of Sensation: Deleuze and Aesthetics Pli,' by Darren Ambrose and Wahida Khandker, The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Volume 16 ISBN 1897646127.
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18Questioning styleIn Alex Clayton & Andrew Klevan (eds.), The language and style of film criticism, Routledge. 2011.
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8The politics of the multipleCritical Horizons 8 (1): 96-115. 2007.A review of "Being and Event", by A. Badiou, O. Feltham, New York: Continuum, 2005, ISBN 0826458319.
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9Disenfranchising film on the analytic-cognitivist turn in film theoryIn James Williams, Edwin Mares, James Chase & Jack Reynolds (eds.), Postanalytic and Metacontinental: Crossing Philosophical Divides, Continuum. 2010.16 page
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47A critical review essay dealing with three major publications in the field of philosophy of film published during 2009.
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89Few cinephiles would deny the importance of mood in film, yet the aesthetics of mood are curiously overlooked today. On the one hand, mood is an essential dimension of cinema: we define certain genres, for example, by suggesting the moods they evoke. On the other hand, words frequently fail us when we try to articulate such moods in a more abstract or analytical vein. I offer in this essay some critical reflections on the significance of mood, suggesting that mood works in narrative film by the …Read more
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77Anatomy of melancholiaAngelaki 19 (4): 111-126. 2014.:This article analyses some of the aesthetic and philosophical strands of Lars von Trier's Melancholia, focusing in particular on the film's remarkable Prelude, arguing that it performs a complex ethical critique of rationalist optimism in the guise of a neo-italictic allegory of world-destruction. At the same time, I suggest that Melancholia seeks to “work through” the loss of worlds – cinematic but also cultural and natural – that characterises our historical mood, one that might be described …Read more
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94From machenschaft to biopolitics: A genealogical critique of biopowerCritical Horizons 6 (1): 239-265. 2005.This paper develops a genealogical critique of the concepts of biopower and biopolitics in the work of Foucault and Agamben. It shows how Heidegger's reflections on Machenschaft or machination prefigure the concepts of biopower and biopolitics. It develops a critique of Foucault's account of biopolitics as a system of managing the biological life of populations culminating in neo-liberalism, and a critique of Agamben's presentation of biopolitics as the metaphysical foundation of Western politic…Read more
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55Cinempathy: Phenomenology, Cognitivism, and Moving ImagesContemporary Aesthetics. forthcoming.Some of the most innovative philosophical engagement with cinema and ethics in recent years has come from phenomenological and cognitivist perspectives. This trend reflects a welcome re-engagement with cinema as a medium with the potential for ethical transformation, that is, with the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience. This paper explores the phenomenological turn in film theory, emphasizing the ethical implications of phenomenological approaches to affect and empathy, emotion, an…Read more
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12Critique and disclosure: Critical theory between past and futureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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Rebecca Comay & John McCumber Eds's Endings. A Question Of Memory In Hegel And Heidegger (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 47 96-100. 2003.
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4Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 163-179. 2009.Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit …Read more
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14Hugo MiinsterbergIn Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen Publishing. pp. 20-30. 2009.Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholars to provide a detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. The thinkers include continental philosophers, post-continental philosophers, analytic philosophers, film-makers, film reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists. The essays reveal how philosophy can be applied to film analysis and how film can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But more importantly, the essays explore how f…Read more
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2The Volcano and the dream: Consequences of RomanticismIn Paolo Diego Bubbio & Paul Redding (eds.), Religion after Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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31This essay presents a critical interpretation of Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Walter Benjamin’s text, "Critique of Violence." It examines the relationship between deconstruction and justice, and the parallel Derrida draws between deconstructive reading and Benjamin’s account of pure violence. I argue that Derrida blurs Benjamin’s distinction between the political general strike and the proletarian general strike. As a consequence, Derrida criticises Benjamin’s metaphysical complicity with…Read more
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95Cinematic Ideas, on David Lynch's Mulholland DriveFilm-Philosophy 9 (4). 2005.he enigmatic films of David Lynch have been interpreted from a variety of perspectives. Among these we can find Lynch the postmodernist ironist, Lynch the transgressive neoconservative, and Lynch the visionary explorer of the unconscious. Martha P. Nochimson's recent study, for example, presents an eloquent case for regarding Lynch as a Jungian 'surfer of the waves of the collective unconscious', whose films combine the intuitive embracing of subconscious Life Energy with a celebration of the cr…Read more
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17Bloodsworth‐Lugo, Mary K. and Dan Flory, eds. Race, Philosophy, and Film. New York: Routledge, 2013, xiii + 235 pp., 8 b&w illus., $125.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 340-342. 2014.
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23Nikolas Kompridis, Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and FutureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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