... medium specificity futurity South Asia ...

... scale medium specificity film culture geopolitics identity politics ...

... Eschewing national frames in favor of regional patterns, the chapter presents observations concerning “demotic” photographic practices in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India. It attempts to balance differences in local practices with medium specificity. The technical visual conditions of citizenship...

... is the political value of the worlds that queer cinema creates. Engaging medium specificity, film culture, geopolitics and the fault lines of identity politics, this chapter introduces the concept of queer worlding. Worlding necessarily includes the many processes and concepts that have gained traction in thinking...

...-four-hour video installation made entirely of found footage of clocks and references to the time. The answer to the question “Is this clock analog or digital?” unsolders these two terms from their medium-specific connotations and reveals them to be less fully opposed than one might think. time...

... This chapter explores the provenance of the novel in our hypervisual and multimedia age. It argues that contemporary novels are now self-consciously intermedial in that they actively work into their formal structures and modes of address phenomenologies of apperception that far exceed the medium...

... In chapter seven, Shankar follows one of the Sahaayaka mentors as he moves through an Urdu medium school in South Karnataka. Shankar reveals the way that Sahaayaka's organizational ideology, which limits any explicit focus on a specific minority community, results in a praxis that largely...

... The last thirty years have seen a great deal of scholarship on Benjamin’s optical unconscious, yet much of this work expands well beyond photography, the actual subject of Benjamin’s formulation. This chapter places the medium and its historically specific conditions at the center of renewed...

... image medium as a process of duration and change, asserts the book’s intention to help fill a gap in documentary-specific digital media scholarship, and starts to disentangle the ethics of recording actual death—and of viewing or even writing about such recordings. Finally, the book’s theoretical...

... Where the verb dépaysement evokes a mood of disorientation experienced during travel, it is argued that it is the primary medium through which Renée Green pursues a postconceptual art practice across installation, film, video, and writing. Showing how strategies of site specificity...

... it travels beyond its originating context as a result of the medium’s reproducibility. Taking each aspect into account confirms photography’s unique role in revealing the multiple ways in which modernity was a global phenomenon that was always lived and experienced through the specificity of local...

... This chapter looks at some of the specific ways that sound and vision interact in the cinematic medium. Film is often approached as essentially visual, with the role of sound devalued, ignored, or misapprehended. This happens in large part because certain effects, feelings, and significations...

... medium—and in particular its leader, the sociologist Shimizu Ikutarō, this chapter notes how claims about television’s unique relation to the everyday forgot similar claims about cinema’s relation to the mundane made decades before by Gonda Yasunosuke. It is argued that such assumptions functioned...

... potential of the medium but also on games as an inherently political site where race, alongside other configurations of difference and power, is made and remade through play. The coda does so by examining several genres of role-playing games in terms of their procedural logics of racial management, thereby...

... moves through an Urdu medium school in South Karnataka. Shankar reveals the way that Sahaayaka's organizational ideology, which limits any explicit focus on a specific minority community, results in a praxis that largely invisibilizes the needs of majority Muslim schools. In turn, the fieldworkers...

... inherently connected. fixation processing acoustic decoupling acoustic isolation phonogeneration This chapter looks at some of the specific ways that sound and vision interact in the cinematic medium. Film is often approached as essentially visual, with the role of sound devalued, ignored...

... spectatorship, a sophisticated communal model of how we make sense of filmic media that stands in productive tension with today’s phenomenological and embodied approaches to film. For reasons made apparent in this chapter, Nakai is often likened to Walter Benjamin. He was fascinated by the new medium...

... Track three is concerned with the comparison between different audio formats. Enumerating the specific pros and cons of the various means of playback—magnetic tape, vinyl, CD, MP3, streaming—the author professes a flexible sense of affinity, depending on what the music and playback circumstance...

... Track three is concerned with the comparison between different audio formats. Enumerating the specific pros and cons of the various means of playback—magnetic tape, vinyl, CD, MP3, streaming—the author professes a flexible sense of affinity, depending on what the music and playback circumstance...