Yes, or V/H/S-- what I find interesting here is the way the anthology format allows for a more emphatically comparative approach, putting VHS and digital formats side by side. I also find it intriguing that the film uses a VHS-era frame story that, in ter ...
Great post, Felix, and a really fine choice of video clips to illustrate what you're getting at! Together, your text + video offers a compelling picture of "logics of conspiracy" as more than just themes: as not only structuring the diegesi ...
Thanks for this thought-provoking post, kicking off what promises to be a fascinating theme week. Just a few thoughts: As you write, tech conventions and marketing campaigns "foreground fantasies about faster, newer, prettier, and thinner things by ...
[Continued from previous comment] Following Heidegger's tool-analysis in Being and Time, the thingliness of technologies is itself a function of failure: due to breakage, the hammer fails to be absorbed in the user's concernful employment toward ...
Kristopher, thanks for your reply. I think I agree with you on most everything here, and I am especially interested in your ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of failure, which you describe nicely as "a moment of contact between vital materialities ...
Just a few random thoughts on the question of German TV and the special episode: I can't think of anything like this on German TV either, but it got me thinking a bit more about comparable functions. I remember watching the Diff'rent Strokes epi ...
Jason, this is a problem I've encountered in very practical terms: my 9-year-old son discovered Batman a few years ago but really got into it this year--first through a Lego Batman game on his Nintendo DS, then the films and comics. For his age, I wo ...
Thanks, Daniel, for this great post. I think the questions you're asking about authorization practices and the proliferation of non-authorized/non-official versions of popular serial figures are getting at something essential about popular seriality ...
Thanks, Daniel, for your insightful comments. I agree completely with what you write about the misrecognition of the logic of serial figures: it's precisely the proliferation of endless versions of a figure like Batman that keeps him in circulation. ...
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V/H/S
Anthology format
Conspiracy & the politics of the seemingly apolitical
Vectors of failure
Vectors of failure (continued)
aesthetics of failure
German Specialties
muddy waters
Discontinuity Continued
even demasking won't settle identities
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