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2Film figures: an organological approachBloomsbury Academic. 2024.Develops a program for undertaking figural analysis of narrative film by drawing on the work of three philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze.
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14A View From Nowhere: the passage of rough sea at dover from camera to algorithmAngelaki 27 (6): 3-20. 2022.In cinematic experience, a view from nowhere appears in an instituting moment – neither in time nor out of time, but part of time itself – when a camera reflex lifts the viewer’s perception out of somewhere and into the infinite time of the film. We argue that the view from nowhere found in Birt Acres’s film Rough Sea at Dover – a fifteen-second shot of waves breaking against a sea wall in Dover, England in 1895 – transcends all attempts to turn it into a view from somewhere, as an empty space t…Read more
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8Creativity, singularity and techné : The making and unmaking of visual objects in modernityAngelaki 11 (1): 75-87. 2006.In an essay published in 1918, Walter Benjamin sets forth a task that will concern him for the rest of his life: The task of a future epistemology is to find for knowledge the sphere of total neutr...
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8_With Nature_ provides new ways to think about our relationship with nature in today’s technologically mediated culture. Warwick Mules makes original connections with German critical philosophy and French poststructuralism in order to examine the effects of technology on our interactions with the natural world. In so doing, the author proposes a new way of thinking about the eco-self in terms of a careful sharing of the world with both human and non human beings. _With Nature_ ultimately argues …Read more
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33The figural as interface in film and the new media : Review of 'Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media' by D. N. Rodowick (review)Film-Philosophy 7 (7): 7--56. 2003.In his recently published book _Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media_, D. N. Rodowick introduces the figural into the analysis of film and new media. The book contains revised versions of already published articles written in the 1980s and 1990s, [1] together with new material, and takes us on a journey through film theory and new media technologies to draw out the power of figuration in the coming digital age. Recognizing the 'tectonic shift' (205)currently taking place from …Read more
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48D. N. Rodowick _Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media_ Durham: Duke University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-8223-2711-2 276 pp
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41Creativity, Singularity and Techné: the Making and Unmaking of Modern Visual ObjecAngelaki 11 (1). 2006.In an essay published in 1918, Walter Benjamin sets forth a task that will concern him for the rest of his life: The task of a future epistemology is to find for knowledge the sphere of total neutrality in regards to concepts of both subject and object; in other words, it is to discover the autonomous, innate sphere of knowledge in which this concept in no way continues to designate the relation between two metaphysical entities. (‘‘The Coming Philosophy’’ 104) Benjamin seeks an ‘‘autonomous, in…Read more
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74Democracy and Critique: Recovering Freedom in Nancy and DerridaDerrida Today 3 (1): 92-112. 2010.In this paper, I argue that we need to re-address the issue of freedom as it relates to democracy and critical practice. My argument is drawn out of Derrida's deconstructive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy's The Experience of Freedom which proposes freedom in ontological terms as an experience of indeterminate openness that must be thought prior to any freedom of the self. I show how Derrida's reading of Nancy's text is itself a re-enactment of the freedom that Derrida finds wanting in Nancy's text, b…Read more
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