Monthly Archives: November 2018

Emilio Sauri (bio)University of Massachusetts Boston A review of Rey Chow, Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. In the introduction to Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture, Rey Chow draws our attention to two senses of the word “entanglement.” While the “most obvious sense” is that of a “relativization” or blurring […]

Cristin Ellis (bio)The University of Mississippi A review of Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. It is reported that, while out on a stroll with friends one day, the Transcendentalist Elizabeth Peabody walked into a tree limb. Picking herself up, she explained to […]

Jeff Menne (bio)Oklahoma State University A review of Johannes Von Moltke and Kristy Rawson, editors, Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings, Berkeley: U of California P, 2012. Nothing has marked the maturity of cinema studies as much as its reckoning with Siegfried Kracauer’s writings. The discipline’s nominal adjustment, from “cinema studies” to “cinema and media studies,” signals […]

Leigh Claire La Berge (bio)City University of New York Dehlia Hannah (bio)Arizona State University Abstract This article considers the “debt visualizations” of social practice artist Cassie Thornton. Thorton’s works use a combination of photography, performance art, sculpture, non-fiction narrative, text, and hypertext to explore the cost and consequence of the accumulation of student loans. The […]

Krista Geneviève Lynes (bio)Concordia University Abstract This essay examines the role played by political and activist media, as well as media infrastructures and platforms, in creating solidarity or continuity between the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, Indignados and the ‘Printemps Erable,’ among others. It critiques the overvaluation of social media in organizing protests and creating […]

Michael D’Arcy (bio)St. Francis Xavier University Abstract This essay argues that Theodor Adorno’s reflections on the novel form respond to a problem that is focused in his commentaries on the cinema: how to develop forms of aesthetic rationality at a historical moment in which medium-specific aesthetic reflection may be obsolete. Adorno’s commentaries on novelistic and […]

Nicholas Brown (bio)University of Chicago at Illinois Abstract Beginning from an analysis of the anomalous position of music within Hegel’s system of aesthetics — a position that brings forth the peculiar quality of music as a medium — this essay asks how we are to conceive of musical meaning in an era when music’s relation […]

Timothy Bewes (bio)Brown University Abstract This essay discusses the central historical proposition of Gilles Deleuze’s cinema books, the “sensorimotor break” that separates the classical cinema of the movement-image from the modern cinema of the time-image. That proposition is more or less in line with dominant accounts of the politics of periodization in twentieth-century aesthetics. Jacques […]