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Publisher: Journals Gateway
October (2021) (177): 79–95.
Published: 15 September 2021
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“Cinema at a Standstill” examines the theory and practice of film within the Situationist International, circa 1968. Questioning Guy Debord's refusal to document the group's participation in the abortive revolution of May-June ‘68, the essay explores the Situationists' ambivalence to the image as mnemonic device. Their refusal of film's iconicity did not, however, mean a complete refusal of its logic: The austere, text-based posters produced by the SI during the uprising are here read as a species of revolutionary intertitle for a film running in real time along the streets. Sharing the aniconic quality found at the same moment in the work of Daniel Buren and Jean-Luc Godard, this Situationist imageless cinema is read through the dialectic of repetition and stoppage first developed by Giorgio Agamben.
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October (2015) (153): 117–131.
Published: 01 July 2015
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This essay inquires into the vexed place of labor in the work of Cindy Sherman. Noting the curious absence of images of workingwomen among the vast repertoire of feminine types featured in the artist's photographs, it turns to her oft-disparaged film Office Killer (1997) to consider the stakes of representing class and labor within the contemporary regime of neoliberalism. The lead character in this horror film is read as an exemplar of human capital, an “entrepreneur of the self,” and as such, an updated version of the vampire-like tendencies of capital already discussed by Marx a century ago. Moving away from the prevalent psychoanalytic discourse around Sherman's work, the essay attempts to root her production within the larger social relations of present-day labor.
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October (2008) (123): 107–109.
Published: 01 January 2008
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October (2006) (115): 39–45.
Published: 01 January 2006
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October (2004) (110): 107–130.
Published: 01 October 2004
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October (2002) (102): 101–122.
Published: 01 October 2002
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No matter what trail the flaneur may follow, every one of them will lead him to a crime. —Walter Benjamin, “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire”