Adrian & Elena, you might be interested to know that Bill Connolly has responded to Ruth Leys'critique and that she, in turn, has offered a response (both in the current issue of Critical Inquiry). However convinced or unconvinced you may be by ...
Those wishing to comment on Paul's provocative and polemical post might wish to read a longer version of the text which introduces the notion of post-cinematic affect as it is laid out by Shaviro, discusses Rey Chow's meditations on the emergen ...
Shaviro has a post up at The Pinocchio Theory blog today on his notion of “post-continuity” cinema ( http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=1003)which makes me wonder about Paul’s fight scene clip from Old Boy and whether this is continuity cinema or post-con ...
Thanks for an excellent post, Paul! I agree with Shane and Elena that you're raising several very important questions about cinematic affect as well as cinematic representation in general. Since Shane and Elena have responded to your discussion regar ...
Shaviro asserts that in recent action cinema “the expansion of the techniques of intensified continuity, especially in action films and action sequences, has led to a situation where continuity itself has been fractured and devalued, or fragmented and red ...
And what about post-continuist affect? Shaviro argues that Stork’s video-essay is too dismissive of post-continuist cinema and its effects on audiences when he posits that viewers can “sense” the action but are “not truly experiencing it”. Like Paul, St ...
I was struck in reading through the comments by the ways in which the image is being thought as having a “mental pole”. Shane in his fascinating description of an “anthropotechnical interface” he calls the “metabolic image” says that: “The challenge, thou ...
Thanks Elena, I can see how Bains' idea of subjectless subjectivities (isn't this much the same as Deleuze's larval subjects which are also singularities prior to any subjectivity?) links up with both your post on the vitalities of affect ...
Those who would like to comment on Adrian's terrific post might like to read a longer text he wrote on Post-Cinematic Affect and Catherine Malabou's notion of plasticity (focusing for the most part--as this curation does--on Hooker/Jones' ...
Thanks Adrian, for an excellent and practically mitotic chain of posts! I really like your idea of the magical/performative-affective continuum. I would like to invite you to talk a bit more about how this would fit into your earlier discussion of hyperca ...
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The Affect debate continues...
Post-Cinematic Effects (uncut)
Post-Continuity Cinema
Sensual Flows and Empty Orgies
Post-Continuity Cinema (continued...)
Post-Continuist Affect
Panpsychism and the Image
Subjectless Subjectivities
More "Hair of the Dog"
The Magical Lady Gaga
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