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Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miéville
Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media
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Book Presentation:
As the spread of knowledge and even theory becomes an increasingly audiovisual affair, how can philosophy adapt in ways that develop – rather than dilute – philosophical rigor and specificity? How can philosophy harness the potential of audiovisual media – being more formally multidimensional than text-only – to conceptualize with greater precision and depth?
This book presents a theory of formal development of philosophy in this regard: a theory of cinecepts. While spanning film, media, art, and critical theories as well as philosophy, this study proceeds mainly through a close reimagination of the work of Gilles Deleuze, which allows for a merging of what he kept separated: filmic thinking and philosophical conceptualization. Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville's underexplored 1970s Sonimage works are also the subject of extensive examination, along with critical considerations of a contemporary era of academic video essays and phenomena like philosophy channels on YouTube.
About the Author:
Jakob A. Nilsson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Örebro University
Press Reviews:
Nilsson proposes both a new interpretation of the relationship between theory and practice in the work of Jean-Luc Godard and a new reading of Gilles Deleuze and the application of his thought to cinema. Nilsson delineates a rich new avenue for research in film-philosophy. No other book has examined in such detail or with such conviction Godard’s famous claim that cinema is ‘a form that thinks.’ -- Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick
This book closely examines the interconnections between cinema and philosophy; in line with, but also moving beyond Deleuze. The words "cinema" and "concepts" are here tightly bound up to shape a new theoretical development of audio-visual philosophy. It comes close to a specific version of what I have called "Image-Thinking". -- Mieke Bal, author of Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
> On a related topic:
Deleuze's Cinema Books (2016)
Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images
by David Deamer
Subject: Theory
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