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Sensations and solidarity: Affect, ambience, and politics in digital literary narratives

June 5, 2021/in Spring 2021_#Solidarity

This article studies the literary, affective, and political possibilities generated by digital literary micro-narratives published on Terribly Tiny Tales, a popular micro-blogging platform in India. More specifically, it will study the narratives which relate to the theme of gender politics, rape culture, patriarchy, misogyny, etc. within the contextual framework of a change in the nature of public discourse in Indian digital spaces after the brutal rape and murder of a young resident of New Delhi in 2012. This article argues that the peculiar digital and affective poetics of micro-narratives combined with their modality of circulation and the infrastructure of digital media platforms produces a form of ambient politics, characterised by its sensory and mundane qualities. 

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The play of iconicity in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built

June 14, 2020/in Features, Spring 2020_#Intelligence

This article studies the function of the iconic sign and the operation of diagram-icons in Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (2018), a film about a serial killer Jack (Matt Dillon) who builds a house of corpses before being escorted to hell. What is remarkable in this film is von Trier’s specific use of filmic iconicity in probing the value of Western icons in art and architecture. In voiceover digressions from the narrative action following Jack’s serial killing, a comparison is made between the iconic power of murder on a grand scale (specified as genocides throughout history) and culturally valuated icons of art and architecture. The article focuses on the audiovisual icons in the film that invites the audience to diagrammatic readings and fabulation throughout and beyond the film’s narrative content. After a short introduction to the iconic sign and the diagram-icon respectively, the exploration of the film takes its starting point in how Jean-Luc Godard used the iconic force of the color red in Pierrot le Fou (1965). Even though the significant use of red throughout The House That Jack Built is justified within the context of serial killing, its many reiterations also qualifies ‘red’ as a diagrammatic feature combining iconic elements transversally. This diagrammatic feature foregrounds the film’s fabulatory and haptic levels beyond its strictly narrative content, making way for the wider philosophical comments expounded ‘in the film’ by the figure of Verge (Bruno Ganz). His extradiegetic voice becomes intradiegetic in the last part of the film as his body appears, acting as a guide for Jack into a version of Dante’s hell. 

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Drawing light: Gesture and suspense in the weave

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture

by Nicole De Brabandere and Alanna Thain Drawing Light was a research-creation workshop on procedural thinking held in the early evening of a wintery Saturday (10 February 2018) in Montreal, Canada. The workshop was facilitated by Nicole De Brabandere, a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and an interdisciplinary artist-scholar, and Alanna Thain, director of the […]

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(Un)Frozen expressions: Melodramatic moment, affective interval, and the transformative powers of experimental cinema

December 21, 2019/in Autumn 2019_#Gesture, Features

by Jiří Anger The Czech philosopher Karel Thein once said, with regard to the expressive features of Pedro Almodovar’s film Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother, 1999), that in melodrama, ‘a second lasts a lifetime, a minute is eternity’.[1] While the term melodrama is used in so many different contexts and with so […]

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Media and emotion: An introduction

May 27, 2019/in Spring 2019_#Emotions

by Jens Eder, Julian Hanich, and Jane Stadler From movies to emojis, from love letters to flame wars, from shocking television news to immersive video games – emotions are of utmost importance for media production, reception, appropriation, and interaction. They guide the sensory perception and meaning-making of their users; they imprint media experiences into memory; […]

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Affective politics in contemporary media

April 15, 2019/in News

On 16 May in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press will co-host a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption by NECSUS editorial board member Toni Pape. […]

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Dressing the surface

December 6, 2017/in Autumn 2017_#Dress

by Giuliana Bruno What is the place of materiality in our contemporary virtual world? To engage materiality, I suggest that we think about surfaces rather than images, and explore the fabrics of the visual and the surface tension of media. In order to pursue a new materialism, I propose performing critical acts of investigation on […]

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On cinematic affect

June 5, 2016/in News

The open access journal The Cine-Files has recently published a special dossier on cinematic affect. The dossier was edited by Anne Rutherford (Western Sydney University) and includes an essay by NECSUS editor Patricia Pisters on Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010). The Cine-Files is an online scholarly journal of cinema studies produced within the cinema studies program at […]

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The way we watched: Vintage television programmes, memories, and memorabilia

November 24, 2015/in Autumn 2015_'Vintage'

by Helen Piper ‘People die, sure,’ my mother was saying. ‘But it’s so heart-breaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.’ – Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch[1] Formal histories of television and […]

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