At nettime, Jordan Crandall posted a great salvo entitled "Showing."
An excerpt:
new cultures of self-display challenge us to rethink foundational
concepts in film and media theory and, consequently, to rethink the very
conditions of our approach. For clearly these cultures are not
necessarily those of mastery and visual pleasure. They do not resolve
easily to questions of perception, power, and language. They are cultures
of showing as much as those of watching. Instead of a reliance on
questions of spectatorship, language, and scopic power, we are challenged
to foreground issues of performance, affect, and display.
Jordan's text is compelling to me because it raises aspects of network culture that I've underplayed in my essay to date. For if new means of self-expression are available to us, I've undertheorized just why we choose to show. Jordan's perspective, which draws on Foucauldian and psychonanalytic theories, helps get at this issue.
At nettime, Jordan Crandall posted a great salvo entitled "Showing."
An excerpt:
new cultures of self-display challenge us to rethink foundational
concepts in film and media theory and, consequently, to rethink the very
conditions of our approach. For clearly these cultures are not
necessarily those of mastery and visual pleasure. They do not resolve
easily to questions of perception, power, and language. They are cultures
of showing as much as those of watching. Instead of a reliance on
questions of spectatorship, language, and scopic power, we are challenged
to foreground issues of performance, affect, and display.
Jordan's text is compelling to me because it raises aspects of network culture that I've underplayed in my essay to date. For if new means of self-expression are available to us, I've undertheorized just why we choose to show. Jordan's perspective, which draws on Foucauldian and psychonanalytic theories, helps get at this issue.