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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 103–127.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., they are nonetheless geopolitically and historically specific, consistently focusing on the awkwardness of white, heterosexual, middle-class, professional German women and what Lauren Berlant refers to as the “cruel optimism” that renders their seemingly privileged existence precarious. Ade distinguishes herself...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 167–173.
Published: 01 September 2016
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necessity, a ‘requirement.’ And in the first place, I must have a
body because an obscure object lives in me.”3
The Garden and the Pond
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Is undetectability a cause for optimism?
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The word optimisme was first used in the February 1737 edition of
the Journal de Trévoux, an organ...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 173–197.
Published: 01 September 2023
... (2003): 257–337; Hortense J. Spillers, “The Idea of Black Culture,” CR: The New Centennial Review 6, no. 3 (2006): 7–28. 5. Wilderson, Red, White and Black , 19. 6. Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 2. 7. Berlant, Cruel Optimism , 2...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (1 (112)): 165–195.
Published: 01 May 2023
... bargains of living and dying in (Trump’s) America. 61. Berlant, Cruel Optimism , 97. 62. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1958); Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998); Carl Schmitt...
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Camera Obscura (2013) 28 (1 (82)): 69–101.
Published: 01 May 2013
...) that came before and arrived after, these scenes
condense nostalgic feelings about the past and sanguine promises
about the future in their evocation of love’s optimism. Such opti-
mism as that which infuses the aesthetic and narrative conventions
of the love plot suspends this scene for a moment’s...
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Camera Obscura (2023) 38 (2 (113)): 145–171.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Computing intimacy refers not only to the application of computational methods to the management of relationships—through administering questionnaires and processing responses to offer ostensibly optimized advice to couples—but also to the erotic experience of a couple using computers together...
FIGURES
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Camera Obscura (2024) 39 (3 (117)): 149–175.
Published: 01 December 2024
... shaping how runners engage with a game, while glitches, exploits, and highly optimized play bypass many of a game's challenges (often adding new ones). And all the while the timer implicitly adds a demand for speed. So, then, videogame play is caught up in, informed by, and constitutive of other temporal...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (2 (92)): 149–153.
Published: 01 September 2016
... speculates that this form of opacity might be grounds for
a pragmatic optimism.
Glissant writes of opacity as a poetic force that cannot be
reduced to universalisms or transparencies. Through analyses of
artworks and discursive methods, the texts in this collection dem-
onstrate...
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Camera Obscura (2009) 24 (2 (71)): 77–105.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., is not the mandatory optimism
of the postrevolutionary Soviet Union, the alternative to the crime
of ideological pessimism. This is actual optimism, acknowledging
that, even if we do not know where Jutka will go from here, for her
there is a place to go.
Two names emerge as explicit reference points...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (1 (88)): 41–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... biopower as a “power to foster
life . . . capable of optimizing forces, aptitudes, and life in general,”
a form of power that issues the imperative to make live, to make
live better, to make alive.20 Implicit in Ouellette and Hay’s text is
the argument that reality TV instantiates a movement...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 133–139.
Published: 01 December 2016
... fostered by increased
access to online video teleconferencing, emergent metadata schemes
(including hashtags), user-friendly interfaces for remix rhetorics,
sharing platforms for vernacular curation, and open databases of
information. Yet the desire to optimize algorithmic culture, accel-
erating...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 70–95.
Published: 01 September 1999
..., and the film is marked by this trend. 77
At the same time, the film marks a moment of technological optimism
and puissance in the US which provided a notion of progress that was
inseparable from the normative injunctions to form nuclear families.
The film is thus situated at a crucial confluence...
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Camera Obscura (2017) 32 (2 (95)): 185–192.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of
the body onscreen from the body offscreen,” then Queers redeploys
panic in a similar way.6 In short, the panic and anxiety of the player
is contrasted with the calm certainty of their character.
However, it is important to recognize Queers’ hopefulness
and optimism in the face of destruction...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 224–232.
Published: 01 May 1992
...-threatening implications, consciously
attempts to preserve hope and optimism. The breast cancer video on
chemotherapy closes with the narrator (a woman physician) saying:
You are at an important crossroads in your life and it’s hard to tell where
each path will lead. But also realize...
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Camera Obscura (2016) 31 (3 (93)): 99–131.
Published: 01 December 2016
... by the magic combination of
compulsion and neglect,” Dyer-Witheford fixes the line of success
and failure along an axis of technical sophistication and can thus
rescue more than a kernel of optimism for “a postcapitalist mode
of production emerging in a context of massive mid-twenty-first
century...
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Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 125–138.
Published: 01 September 1990
..., there is little recourse but to enter
the current work. Site Recite (the videotape) can be seen as a single
reading/writing from an “interactive” videodisc entitled Which tree.16
I mark this word interactive with its tendency to attract an optimism
of infinite possibilities, contrary to the fact...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
... is the order of the day, with only sports scholarships
and drug-dealing offering ways out of the economic malaise. Both movies
deal with female protagonists in a very problematic way. However,
unlike the "redemptive" Boyz N the Hood, Menace II Society holds out
little optimism for the future of African...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 149–157.
Published: 01 December 2012
... through the interplay between Ruby and
the people in her life. Derek (Omari Hardwick), Ruby’s husband,
tries to maintain optimism that their marriage will survive his
incarceration, but is disillusioned as he becomes implicated in
rivalries and con icts on the inside. Gina (Maya Gilbert), Ruby’s...
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Camera Obscura (2014) 29 (2 (86)): 149–183.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., loses its alabaster logo of a
man with a world in his hands and becomes instead the domain of
two perambulating women of color, a “portal through which pres-
ent (im)possibilities might appear.”41 This take on Illusions teems
with utopian optimism, an affect Annamarie Jagose notes as familiar...
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Camera Obscura (2015) 30 (2 (89)): 1–27.
Published: 01 September 2015
... provides key insights into the history of Los
Angeles avant-garde cinema. Fusing music, dance, and film into a
genre-defying display of live pop performance, The T.A.M.I. Show
harnessed the utopian optimism of 1960s youth culture to break
down racial and cultural barriers and, in a curious...
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