It is not right to say that the cinematographic image is in the present. What is in the present is what the image ‘represents’, but not the image itself, which, in cinema as in painting, is never to be confused with what it represents. The image itself is the system of the relationships between its [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Value-Added Image: Media Assemblages as Ecologies of Sensation
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Bollywood, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, India, Method, New Media, Perception, TimeTags: affect, Bollywood, control, creativity, Deleuze, New Media, value added
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On the Work of Art Today: Benjamin and the Machinic Phylum
Posted: October 27, 2008 in Benjamin, Cinema, Ecology of Sensation, Method, New Media, Perception, Representation, SwarmsTags: affect, aura, Benjamin, Deleuze, machinic phylum, New Media, RFID, shock, Swarms, technology, video games
We will begin here with Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (Second Version of 1936). (I’m not going to justify using this version except to say that there are aspects to it that exceed Adorno’s policing of Walter!) W.J.T. Mitchell has clarified the genealogy that ties Benjamin’s “Artwork” [...]
