Tina Kendall
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Feel-Bad Virality
Thanks Tanya! Yes, I think the response of irritation seems to be a common response to Nyan Cat, and is what I had in mind when I suggested that the video partakes of a broader tradition of provocation that is more commonly associated with slow art films. ... -
Duration & Networked Media
Hi Adam, Yes, great question. This question of the spectator's or user's intervention is crucial to this discussion, since the viewer not only has the option of pausing or stopping the video but also of speeding it up (as is the case in several ... -
Affect & Duration
Good to see you are putting our students to work as test subjects in this discussion, James! The Brass Eye example is a great one to bring in here- it shows how playing with our sense of the 'proper' duration of things can alter the functionalit ... -
Gender and affect
Really enjoyed this post, Lisa. It makes a great companion piece to your discussion of the Bourne films in your contribution for the In Focus. I am wondering about the implications of the viewer's affective alignment, and how this is complicated by q ... -
Role of sound?
Thanks both for a really fascinating exchange. Picking up on your points about sound, I wondered if you can say more about the role of sounds-particularly the temporal layering of sound that we find in Elephant (2003)- in establishing a sense of pace in t ... -
The New French Extremity
Interesting post, Niels. The inclusion of Dumont in a week on extreme cinema is an interesting choice, because of the way his films throw up so many questions about how we define extremity in this context. Although Dumont's early work was initially g ... -
Idiot Failure
Some really good responses here! Joss and Genie’s posts open up questions about idiocy’s value as a certain reworking of an aesthetics/ethics of failure: failure of self-reflection, which means (in this context in particular) failure to distance oneself – ... -
Non-Violence
Thanks, Peter, for this great post! I absolutely love this idea of the NekNoms as modelling an ethics of passivity, but I wonder whether this characterisation relies on an understanding of violence as spectacle, rather than grasping the violence in the &# ... -
The style of Idiot Media
Thanks Patrick, that's an interesting observation-- one that definitely applies not just to this video but to many others within the NekNomination 'genre'. The bits toward the end of this video, where we see the most violent moments re-play ... -
Thanks Matt and Matthew for
Thanks Matt and Matthew for your helpful posts. What interested us initially about the NekNomination phenomenon is the way that it draws from the lineage of exemplary masculinity that Matthew describes- one that is defined in relation to withstanding pain ...