FILM, FORANDRING OG FLOW – OG GILLES DELEUZE

 

POLITOLOGISKE STUDIER - ÅRG. 4 NR. 4  - FILM OG POLITIK -OKTOBER 2001

Af Andreas Wester Hansen

Communication is increasingly visual. This article argues that in contemporary societies, we need analytical approaches, which will help us understand how politics is being challenged when discourses mutate at an ever-faster rate. Gilles Deleuze offers the theoretical tools for such an analysis. The article takes as its starting point Deleuze’s book ‘Cinema 2: the time-image’, and shows how his analysis of post-war cinema links up with themes in his more explicitly political writings with Felix Guattari. Furthermore, the writings of Deleuze and Guattari points to a new political ethics centred around the concept of ‘deterritorialisation’. At the same time, Deleuze and Guattari help us understand that deterritorialisations will always bring about new reterritorialisations, and thus provide us with the analytical tools for understanding new bases of power in our post-Panoptic societies.



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