Indeed, continuity is centrally at stake here, and some form of continuity is always at stake in serialized narratives and media productions: continuity & discontinuity can be seen as alternate terms for, or alternate facets of, the interchanges betwe ...
Just wanted to follow up briefly on the first point you raise here, Ruth: I agree that this is the beginning of a particular serial continuity on film--i.e. the beginning of Batman's transformation from a serial figure to a series character. But in ...
Jason, after reading your own fascinating post today, I think I understand better the parameters of your question, and I think the beginning of an answer might be found in the contrast between Breaking Bad's Walt (a series character, in our terminolo ...
Thanks, Jason, for this great post. It got me thinking about the question you posed to us yesterday about how series define "what matters" (serially) to their audiences. I posted an answer of sorts over there that draws a contrast between Walt a ...
Just a brief footnote on "objects": I wonder if an object like the coffeemaker, an elaborate apparatus to be marveled at, is not a concrete point of convergence where the original sense of the "operational aesthetic" (as Neil Harris us ...
Paul, thanks for this great post, which raises several very interesting questions. I'd like to comment on two aspects that occur to me, and hopefully you can say a few more words about them. The first is the distinction between being "about" ...
Brilliant post, Adrian, which identifies a crucial question about our contemporary moment. I was hoping I might get you to say a few more words about the distinction you draw between homeopathic and magical expressions or performances. Is it primarily a ...
Just wanted to chime in once more and say what a fascinating discussion this has turned into. I'm still not sure I have a total grasp of the magic/homeopathy distinction or continuum, but it looks like an interesting avenue to follow, at least to ten ...
Great post--eloquent and very thought-provoking! Though I have no answers to the questions being raised here, here are some ideas that I hope might complement the effort to think through these issues (for technical reasons, my comment is split into two pa ...
(continued from previous comment): The shift from a cinematic to a post-cinematic environment is, in your description, a metabolic process through and through: “Like an expired body that blends with the dirt to form new molecules and living organisms, th ...
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Continuity & Discontinuity
or just a break in continuity?
Interiority/exteriority: on what matters when
Interior decorating and the mass ornament
Objects and the operational aesthetic
Affect/Effect
Repetition and variation
Alles Gaga
Metabolic Affect
Metabolic Affect (Part 2)
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