PROGRAMMA: THE PROGRAMMA: THE BODY ON SCREENBODY ON SCREEN

Vroeger stond een naakt lichaam gelijk aan kwetsbaarheid. Als je de kleren weghaalde,zag je de essentie van een persoon. Tegenwoordig is het lichaam net zo koopbaar als kleding. Het is een nieuwe façade. Een pantser om achter te schuilen. Daarmee lijkt de laatste mogelijkheid om iemand écht te zien verkeken | Terry Rodgers, beeldend kunstenaar

Subthema’s:

• A. The Body and Control Introductie op: Gilles Deleuze Postscript on the Societies of Control.

• B. The Body Alive/Death Introductie op: Sigmund Freud Beyond the Pleasure Principle

• C. The Body that Hurts Introductie op: D.A.F. de Sade Justine en Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Venus in Furs

• D. The Body and MindIntroductie op: Brian Rotman Becoming Beside Ourselves

A. Body and Control: Biopower

• Foucault: zoeken naar strategieen die disciplineren: benoemen, ordenen, internaliseren

• Deleuze: We are in a generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure. We live in Control societies

• Ook interessant: Agamben Homo Sacer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2jsFQSozk

B. The Body Alive/Death: Drives

• Ik of doodsdriften (Thanatos) versus het lustprincipe of levensdriften (Eros). Levensdriften hebben meer met onze innerlijke waarneming te maken, ze treden op als rustverstoorders en verooraken opophoudelijk spanningen, terwijl doosdriften hun werk onopvallend lijken te doen. Freud 218

• In the pilot episode of Mad Men, the 1950s advertising professionals that are the show’s main characters are thinking about how to do a campaign for a cigarette company now that it was becoming common knowledge that smoking causes cancer. The company’s researcher pulled out Freud’s notion of the death drive, saying that really, people want danger on some level, so an effective ad campaign should play on that: acknowledge that the product is deadly but say “so what?”

C. The Body that Hurts: Pornology

• Sade: the sadistic instructor

• We are in the presence of a torturer seizing upon a victim and enjoying her all the more because she is unconsenting and unpersuaded

• Justine is mechanica, descriptief

• Masoch: the masochistic educator

• We are dealing with a victim in search of a torturer and who needs to educate, persuade and conclude an alliance with the torturer in order to realize the strangest of schemes.

• Venus is dialectiek, persuasief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5u3ThYyl4

D. The Body and Mind= Beyond the Brain

Once, not so long ago, there was an absolute separation of self and other: an “I”, identical to itself as an autonomous, indivisible, interior psyche opposed to an external, amorphous collectivity of third persons outside the skin. Now the I/me-unit is dissolving, the one who says or who writes “I” … is no longer a singular, integrated whole, but multiple: a shifting plurality of distributed I-effects, I-roles, I-functions, and I-presences. Rotman: 99

• http://www.vimeo.com/18757054

Further Reading

• Nederlands instituut voor mediakunst:

http://catalogue.nimk.nl/site/?page=/site/artist.php%3Fid%3D4498

• Art Span:

http://www.artspan.com/ • MoMa media art:

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:DE:I:41|G:HI:E:1&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=2