Jacques Rancière: The Future of the Image (2007)

A leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film

In The Future of the Image, Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Rancière argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from religious tendencies. He suggests that there is a stark political choice in art: it can either reinforce a radical democracy, or create a new reactionary mysticism. For Rancière there is never a pure art: the aesthetic revolution will always embrace egalitarian ideals.

Published by Verso, London, 2007
ISBN: 1844671070, 9781844672974
160 pages

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Ágnes Ivacs, János Sugár (eds.): Buldózer: Médiaelméleti antológia (1997) [Hungarian]

An anthology of contemporary media theory in Hungarian, derived from the Metaforum conference series and Nettime mailing list.

Contents:
Introduction by Janos Sugar (English)
Preface by Geert Lovink (English)
I.
Gilles Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control
Thomas Pynchon: Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?
Tjebbe van Tijen: Ars Oblivivendi
Bruce Sterling: The Brief History of the Internet
II.
Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron: Californian Ideology
Manuel De Landa: Markets and Antimarkets
closing debate of MetaForum 3
Felix Stalder: Financial Networks
Matthew Fuller: Spew- Excess and Moderation on the Networks
Critical Art Ensemble: Net Realities – Utopian Promises
Data Trash an interview with Arthur Kroker by Geert Lovink
János Sugár: Paradigm Shift Interruptus
III.
Pit Schultz: The Final Content
Geert Lovink: A Push Media Critique
Alexei Shulgin: Art, Power, and Communication
Calin Dan: Journey through a Data Room
David Garcia, Geert Lovink: ABC of Tactical Media
Miklós Peternák: In Medias Res – The Man without Interface
Lev Manovich: Digital Reality
Hans-Christian Dany: Schizos Still Wanna Have Fun
Michael Heim: Anxieties
IV.
Attila Kotányi: Is There Any Media Criticism That Isn’t Suicidal?
Gábor Bora: AI Service
Alpár Losoncz: Digitalization of Borders
Erik Davis: Technoculture and the Religious Imagination
Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey): Net-Religion – War in Heaven

Edited by Agnes Ivacs and János Sugár, in cooperation with Diana McCarty, Geert Lovink, and Pit Schultz
Biographical notes by Diana McCarty
Publisher Media Research Foundation, Budapest, October 1997
Layout: Balazs Boethy using Heath Bunting’s graphics
ISSN 1417-6033
220 pages

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Michael J. Shapiro: Cinematic Geopolitics (2008)

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon.

In this book, one of America’s foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the “geopolitical aesthetic” that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary film theory and philosophy. Beginning with an account of his experience as a juror at film festival’s, Michael J. Shapiro’s Cinematic Geopolitics analyzes the ways in which film festival space and both feature and documentary films function as counter-spaces to the contemporary “violent cartography” occasioned by governmental policy, especially the current “war on terror.”

Influenced by the cinema-philosophy relationship developed by Gilles Deleuze and the politics of aesthetics thinking of Jacques Ranciere, the book’s chapters examines a range of films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Battle of Algiers to contemporary films such as Dirty Pretty Things and the Fog of War. Shapiro’s use of philosophical and theoretical works makes this cutting edge examination of film and politics essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in film and politics.

Published by Routledge, 2008
ISBN 041577635X, 9780415776356
180 pages

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Okwe, Deer Hunter, Dirty Pretty Things, fog of war, war on terror, El Salvador, Road to Guantanamo, Critique of Judgment, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Ranciere, biopolitical, Cold War, Afghanistan, geopolitical, Fahrenheit 9/11, John Cassady, Iraq, Vietnam War, Predator Drone

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