Cinema Without Reflection

Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift

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by Akira Mizuta Lippit

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, philosophy

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Collection

Forerunners: Ideas First

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 82 pages
5 x 7 inches (12.5 x 18 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5179-0004-5

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Book Presentation:
Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida’s oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida’s reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined.

Following Derrida’s interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida’s philosophy.

Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

See the publisher website: University of Minnesota Press