MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gilles Deleuze, Leitmotif, Extermination Camp
24 Jan 2017
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I claim for the image, the humility and the power of the madeleine. - chris marker. When eaten generates a flow of memories and experiences. A towering and seminal figure in the field of contemporary visual culture. 1950 associate with left bank group of french new wave. Disrupt temporal and spatial continuity of traditional narrative. Audio-visual poet: rejection of traditional conventional narrative, perspective of a stranger in astrange land, haunting meditations on the paradox of memory, manipulation of time. Important on the literary scene as well as arts. Wrote everything from modern culture, photography to aids and fascist aesthetics. Made an impact as an intellectual individual. Alienates us from direct experience and the world our experience of destress is neutralized. Makes everyone a tourist in other people"s reality. We see things constantly through a lens. Profound thinking of intersection of news, art and contemporary depiction of war and disaster. Pictures do not have a diminishing impact.
