An Emphatic Umph: The Art of Affect in Film

3.01.2022

The Art of Affect in Film

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I talk about Spencer, Inherent Vice, the films of Sofia Coppola and John Cassavetes — and more! The affect of film is not the affect of its characters or story; characters become inhuman affective forces.....

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Books in my canon, in no particular order

Lucretius, "On the Nature of Things"
Leibniz, "The Monadology"
Plato, "Phaedrus" and "The Symposium"
Epictetus, "The Enchiridion"
Nicholson Baker, "The Size of Thoughts" and "The Fermata"
Georges Perec, "Species of Spaces"
Michel de Certeau, "The Practice of Everyday Life"
Nabokov, "Lolita," "Ada," and "Pale Fire"
Tom Wolfe, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
Castaneda, "Tales of Power"
Merleau-Ponty, "The Visible and Invisible"
Irvine Welsh, "Trainspotting"
Paul Virilio, "Negative Horizon" and "The Vision Machine"
Derrida, "Margins of Philosophy"
William Burroughs, "The Western Lands," "Naked Lunch," "Cities of the Red Night"
Nietzsche, "Ecce Homo"
Henry Miller, "Tropic of Cancer"
Henri Bergson, "Matter and Memory"
HG Gadamer, "Truth and Method"
John Berryman, "The Dream Songs"
Clarice Lispector, "Agua Viva"
Maurice Blanchot, "Death Sentence"
Michel Houellebecq, "Elementary Particles" and "The Possibility of an Island"
Borges, "Labyrinths"
Philip Roth, "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater"
Foucault, "The History of Sex, v. I and II"
Deleuze, "The Fold" and "Difference and Reptition"
Deleuze and Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus" and "What is Philosophy?"
Kierkegaard, "Fear and Trembling"

An Emphatic Umph

3.01.2022

The Art of Affect in Film

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