Adrian—citing from the opening chapter of Post-Cinematic Affect — writes that the video for Corporate Cannibal reflects a “state of endless modulation. Jones plays herself as endless modulator of her own image, an image that ‘swells and contracts, bend ...
To be sure, Gaga too projects a “certain style” and “singularity” of Lady Gaga as “celebrity icon”. But do her flows, warpings and contortions and endless shape-shiftings suggest possibilities for productive flows, ways to escape the “chronic condition ...
In his contribution to the catalogue for the recent exhibition Speculative Jack Halberstam talks about “Gaga Feminism” as he thinks about new possibilities for living in an inviable world and ways in which we might revolutionize our critical modes and ta ...
Thanks Elena for getting us off to a great start. I wanted to get you to say something more about exhaustion and affect theory. Frederic Jameson, of course, talked about the “waning of affect” a long time ago now. But there has been a recent turn against ...
Thank you indeed, Elena, for your inspiring post, which opens up an array of questions regarding affect in the time of global capitalism. I would like to add a dimension to Michael and Shane’s responses, by inviting you to extrapolate on the ways in which ...
Most of the scenes in your clip seem to signal a sense of relief or release. They are of course excerpts, but together they form a procession of violent outbursts of relief (at the return of the soldier) and explosive release of pent-up fear and emotion. ...
Thanks Patricia. I’m very taken by the last line of your post where you mention “our belief in an abstracted shape that reveals there is nothing to reveal, what Shaviro calls allure, not always pleasant but irreversible” because I have long wondered wheth ...
This strangeness at the heart of objects and the weird excess which makes them appealing to us reminds me of your cinesexual encounter-event (which is also an experience of intimacy with or desire for something which is “deeper than and other than what I ...
I have a further comment/question for Patricia about how your work converges with or diverges from Shaviro’s. It is clear enough—on reading Cinesexuality —that The Cinematic Body has been a shaping influence on your creation of concepts and theories of e ...
Thanks for a truly inspired post, Patricia! I find the way you describe Youtube absolutely alluring – I caught myself starting to consider its hidden depths and affective magnetism. I have one question, though – Youtube clips are certainly different from ...
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Gaga's modulations
Gaga's modulations (continued)
Going Gaga
The Exhaustion of Affect Theory
Resistant Affect
Resistant Affect Continued
Cinesensuality
Cineallure
She's in Fashion?
Youtube
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