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An ‘exemplary contemporary technical object’: thinking cinema between Hansen and Stiegler

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:38 authored by Ben RobertsBen Roberts
This article explores the work of Mark B.N. Hansen and Bernard Stiegler in relation to technology, experience and cinema. It highlights the differences between their positions and evaluates their ongoing usefulness for ‘technocultural’ studies. The article starts by describing and evaluating Hansen’s critique of Stiegler on cinematic temporality. Here it argues that their very different reading of Gilbert Simondon’s work (and especially his concept of individuation) are crucial to understanding the difference between Hansen and Stiegler. The article then moves on to look directly at Stiegler’s approach to cinema through an analysis of his reading of Alain Resnais’s film On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song). It shows here how the frequent citation of popular French song in this film underlines Stiegler’s concept of the ‘industrialisation of memory’. The economic and cultural problematic that Stiegler locates in the film is contrasted with the seemingly positive reappropriation of culture industry which Lawrence Lessig describes as ‘remix culture’. The article then concludes by discussing what is at stake, theoretically and politically, in Stiegler and Hansen’s different ways of thinking about cinema.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

New Formations

ISSN

0950-2378

Publisher

Lawrence and Wishart

Issue

Autumn

Volume

88

Page range

88-104

Department affiliated with

  • Media and Film Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Humanities Lab Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-22

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-03-02

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-22

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