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norskBlar i forfatter "Gustafsson, Henrik Isak Immanuel"
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Foreword
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-11)A confounding antinomy has characterized the ill-fated twenty-first century. On the one hand, a frenzy of “historical” and “unprecedented” moments, as the world is incessantly afflicted by momentous change and cataclysmic and unique events, we are told. “How historical is this?” the news anchor asks the reporter in the field or the expert in the studio, and infallibly, it’s always off the charts. ... -
Gray Illuminations: Foucault and Warburg in the Kingdom of Shadows
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)‘Genealogy is gray, meticulous and patiently documentary.’1 The opening statement of Michel Foucault’s 1971 essay ‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’ reiterates Friedrich Nietzsche’s polemics against ‘the genuinely English type’ of genealogy, ‘gazing around haphazardly in the blue,’ launched in the preface to On the Genealogy of Morals.2 As the antidote to the ethereal realms of the soul and sky ... -
In Spite of All (Malgré tout)
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-01)The locution <i>malgré tout</i>, ‘in spite of all’ or ‘despite everything’, is first and foremost associated with the vexed debate stirred by the exhibition <i>Mémoire des camps</i>, which was organized in Paris in 2001, and the violent reactions provoked by Didi-Huberman’s catalogue essay, “<i>l’images malgré tout</i>”, subsequently expanded into the eponymously titled book in response to the fierce ... -
Montage
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-01)“How can we see time?” This question is raised in the opening sentence of Didi-Huberman’s book-length study of Bertolt Brecht’s 1955 photobook <i>Kriegsfibel</i> (<i>War Primer</i> in English translation (2017)), pieced together with scissors and glue from press clippings and self-penned epigrams. Three years later, in the concluding sentence of his second volume devoted to the unfinished <i>Mnemosyne ... -
Screen Violence from Settler Colonialism to Cognitive Capitalism: Westworld and the Player Piano
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022-09-01)While the HBO show Westworld (2016–present, created by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan) has gained much critical attention for its byzantine plotting and philosophical conundrums, the present discussion focuses instead on the basic premise on which the titular park operates, namely that the algorithms that govern human behavior can be disclosed by studying how human beings behave toward image beings. ...
