Archive for the ‘trauma’ Category
Jumping off from last time here I am going to make some notes about the history of biology as it concerns the relation of Darwin and Lamarck and how this applies to the social or theoretical uptake of evolutionary theory. Sylvia Wynter’s “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, The Puzzle of Conscious Experience, of “Identity” What […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Freud, Lacan, nature, politics, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: eugenics, Fanon, Ferenczi, recapitulation, sylvia wynter
The Present Alone is Our Sadness
For a plot summary you may go here. For another take see here. Firewatch has been generally praised as a playable narrative and less as a game. As a narrative, however, its ending has been critiqued as has the various details of its story. The supposedly anti-climatic ending is central to the theme of the […]
Filed under: art, comic books/graphic novels, film, television, trauma, video games | 1 Comment
Tags: affect, Bioshock, Firewatch, fps, William James
The post was partially inspired by Sarah Marshall‘s piece Beyond Clarice at the Hairpin. I’ve mentioned several times that I have the fantasy of retreating to a cabin somewhere, watching an egregious amount of horror films (though I wonder how many one has to watch as I’ve already seen around 200), and writing a book […]
Filed under: art, Copjec, fantasy, feminism, film, gender, politics, television, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: Beyond the Black Rainbow, feminist horror, gore, halloween, horror films, horror movies, the descent, the love ones, valerie leon
When Facebook’s new Timeline look was announced a few months back a brilliantly funny video lampooned it by taking a clip from Mad Men where Don Draper is doing a presentation on Kodak’s new photograph slide show device. In the episode the Eastman-Kodak execs want to call the device the wheel harping on the fact […]
Filed under: art, Badiou, Deleuze, film, history, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: 80s movies, don draper, drive, facebook, facebook timeline, mad men, memory-image, new media, nostalgia, time-image, timeline
Weirding Wests
Besides a slew of zombie cowboy films, western and horror seem like genres that do not intermix often. The history of the weird and the western seem to have a limited amount of crossover with the rpg Deadlands and the DC series Weird Western Tales. For the latter Jonah Hex and the Riders of the […]
Filed under: film, trauma | 6 Comments
Tags: deadlands, genre mixing, lovecraft, westerns
A fairly recent study to verify the existence of non-conscious effects in the brain entailed a subject being flashed with a fearful face so quickly (33 milliseconds) that it could not be consciously registered. Yet, as caught on a high res MRI, the face had an observable effect – causing anxiety in the test subject. […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, film, literature, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: collapse iv, concept horror, horror movie, lovecraft, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, slasher, the thing
Migrations of Trauma
/1/ – The Uncanny road to trauma… The translation of the word unheimlich, literally ‘unhomeness’, is uncanny – a philosophical and psychological category all too familiar thanks to the work of Sigmund Freud. Yet, the original German term has a primarily spatial orientation – it is a feeling of not being where one feels like […]
Filed under: film, Freud, politics, psychoanalysis, Ranciere, trauma, Zizek | 1 Comment
Trauma’s transmogrifications
/1/ – The commons of trauma The panoply of images after shocking events, whether wildly national/global, such as September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, or somewhat more localized, as in the case of school shootings and abuse scandals, invariably contains the image of the traumatized victim par excellance, the woman with her reddened face buried in her […]
Filed under: film, gender, politics, queer theory, trauma | 3 Comments
Naught Thought 