In this Book

summary
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The eleven volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Foucault, Deleuze, Legal Theory, Occupy Wall Street, Palestine, Cruel Designs, Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Science Fiction, Literature, and Cinema. Volume 11 is devoted to the topic of Cinema: Spike Lee, Béla Tarr, Michelangelo Antonioni and the many other filmmakers named in this volume do not seem to have much in common at first sight; nevertheless, considered through the interpretation of a Spinozist materialist philosophy, their films might have something to say to one another. Take the mud of Red Desert (Antonioni), the volcanic slopes of The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa) and the soil of Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring magnified in Pina (Wenders), for example. What these material manifestations have in common is that they are all in relation with bodies, themselves assemblages of moving matter. Similarly, consider Spike Lee’s dolly shot, Orson Welles’s labyrinth, Béla Tarr’s entropy, and Peter Watkins’s democratic improvisations: they all manifest the power of immanence and its inexorability. These films involve no deus ex machina; everything in them comes ‘from the ground’ in a continuous refusal of a celestial or other form of transcendence. Developing this kind of reading of these films allows us to avoid a traditional chronological reading of history of cinema in favor of another, one more dedicated to the philosophical vision of the world that cinema triggers

Table of Contents

Download PDF Download Full Book
  1. Cover
  2. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. Contents
  2. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. Introduction: The Cinema Papers
  2. pp. 7-8
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 01: La Haine: Banlieue and Police
  2. pp. 9-16
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 02: Paris Is Burning: Gender, Sexuality and Race's Performativity
  2. pp. 17-21
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 03: Coriolanus: State of Exception
  2. pp. 22-25
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 04: World War Z: The Zombie Is a Human You Have the Right to Kill
  2. pp. 26-29
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 05: The Act of Killing: What Constitutes the Act of Killing?
  2. pp. 30-33
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 06: Hunger: The Body at War
  2. pp. 34-40
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 07: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier & The Forgotten Faces: Two Films by Peter Watkins
  2. pp. 41-43
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 08: La Commune (Paris, 1871): Democratic Cinematographic Construction
  2. pp. 44-46
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 09: Sleep Dealer: Separating the Body and its Labor Production
  2. pp. 47-49
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 10: Even the Rain: What Kind of Leftist Do We Want to Be?
  2. pp. 50-53
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 11: Dogtooth: Emancipation from a Sadian Patriarchal World
  2. pp. 54-56
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 12: The Exterminating Angel: We Must Become Claustrophobic Architects
  2. pp. 57-58
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 13: Un Chien Andalou: Dream as True Horror
  2. pp. 59-60
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 14: The Trial: The Kafkaian Immanent Labyrinth as Postmortem Dream
  2. pp. 61-68
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 15: Enter the Void: Post-Mortem Wandering
  2. pp. 69-71
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 16: Holy Motors: Phenomenological Introspection
  2. pp. 72-73
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 17: The Turin Horse: Entropy of Mind and Matter
  2. pp. 74-75
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 18: Red Desert: Corrupted Materials
  2. pp. 76-78
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 19: Gravity: An Ode to Gravity
  2. pp. 79-81
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 20: Pina: The Weight of the Body Dancer
  2. pp. 82-88
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 21: Wings of Desire: Der Erzähler (the Storyteller)
  2. pp. 89-92
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 22: Akira Kurosawa: Applied Spinozism
  2. pp. 93-100
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. 23: Spike Lee: The Dolly Shot as Inexorability of Immanence
  2. pp. 101-108
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
  1. About the Publication, Publication Data
  2. pp. 109-110
  3. open access
    • PDF icon Download
Back To Top