perspective was encouraged by the fact that, at the early stages at least, e-literature did not claim absolute novelty but was preoccupied with finding precursors and precedents in the field of literary practice and theory. At the time when Patchwork Girl
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The Fleshy Horror of the Unknowable Other in Spring and Honeymoon
Dewey Musante
one … [and] herein lies the basis of what [we] would call ‘cosmic horror’—the paradoxical realization of the world’s hideousness as an absolute hiddenness” (2011: 80). Pertinent for my argument here is his distinction that the human condition (which
Being Screens, Making Screens
Functions and Technical Objects
Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua, and Sarah De Sanctis
symbol of the new economy inaugurated by the Incarnation, which put an end to the absolute otherness between God and humanity, inaugurating a new closeness and a new visibility of the divine, as well as implicitly laying the foundations for a new
Violent Thresholds
Sights and Sounds of the Cinematic Baroque in Pascal Laugier's Martyrs
Lawrence Alexander
radical subjectivity and make it perceptible to and in external reality. The absolute divide between one's own subjective reality and that of others is similarly emphasized by Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain , where she refers to the pain of others as
On Shock Therapy
Modernist Aesthetics and American Underground Film
William Solomon
charged, libidinal space of ceaseless change induces in the viewer a euphoric sense of absolute groundlessness. Encouraged to enter a decentered arena of attractions, a multi-vectored zone of constantly fluctuating formlessness, what we enter into is a
Steven Eastwood
without Hegelian proportions, without image, without limits—and gives this assemblage its absolute potential: the movement and flourishing of anti-production. The BwO is a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional desiring machine, no longer distorted by operations
Modernist Embodiment
Sisyphean Landscape Allegory in Cinema
David Melbye
psychologically conflicted in their existential disposition than as single-minded of purpose. For the Spanish conquistador Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), his obsession with absolute dominance over Central and South American regions and their peoples, even to the point of
Michele Barker
of total division, absolute visibility. There is never complete perception of the imperceptible. Instead, to feel imperceptibility we require a new approach to the creation of images that are both sustained by and create movement. While Bergson
Queer Sinofuturism
The Aberrant Movements and Posthumanist Mutations of Body, Identity, and Matter in Lu Yang's Uterus Man
Gabriel Remy-Handfield
confirms the absolute value of reproductive futurism” (2004: 3). On the other hand, queer subjects are then associated with the death drive for Edelman: “The death drive names what the queer, in the order of the social , is called forth to figure: the
Andrew J. Webber
have recognized her on the street, while the mother looks on in evident distaste. 10 When Lore asserts, with absolute faith, that she would certainly have recognized her father, he cannot cope with the pressure of that unconditional anagnorisis. 11