Paul Virilio: The Vision Machine (1988-) [EN, ES, SK, RU]
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, cinema, photogrqphy, technology, telepresence, urbanism, war
Surveying art history as well as the technologies of war and urban planning, one of France’s leading intellectuals provides an introduction to a new “logistics of the image.”
Originally published in French as Le machine de vision, Editions Galilee, 1988
Translated by Julie Rose
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1994
ISBN 0253209013, 9780253209016
81 pages
Key words and phrases
Gericault, telepresence, phatic, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Descartes, Gustave Lebon, Abel Gance, Daniel Buren, Adolf Loos, speed of light, Robert Flaherty, Edgar Allan Poe, Madame Bovary, Auguste Rodin, camera obscura, Albert Speer, British Documentary Movement, wings of desire
PDF (English, trans. Julie Rose, 1994)
PDF (La Máquina de Visión, Spanish, 2nd ed., trans. Mariano Antolin Rato, 1998)
PDF (Stroj videnia, Slovak, trans. Mária Ferenčuhová, 2002)
PDF (Машина зрения [Mashina zreniya], Russian, trans. A. В. Шестакова, 2004)
Michael J. Shapiro: Cinematic Geopolitics (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · biopolitics, cinema, film, film theory, geopolitics, military, philosophy of film, politics, war
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
Key terms:
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
PDF (updated on 2012-9-7)
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