Catastrophic Aftermath: The Loss of Sight as a Process of Becoming Posthuman in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2023.1s141" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2023.1s141</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Catastrophic Aftermath: The Loss of Sight as a Process of Becoming Posthuman in Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

Original language description

In contemporary audiovisual production (mainly the Apple TV series See), the theme of the loss of sight due to (environmental) catastrophe becomes a symptom for the analysis of the disintegration and revival of a world that has deterritorialized due to the exploitative demands of postmodern capitalism, thus de facto marking the end of the so-called Anthropocene era. If Western philosophy traditionally defines man as an animal possessing reason and at the same time an animal in which the different senses are in balance, the loss of sight and the respective post-apocalyptic environment in which survivors exist without the possibility of seeing, on the one hand, outlines a process that could seemingly be considered degenerative or decadent: without sight, man is not man and approaches the animal. On the other hand, however, the loss of this sense also articulates the hints of the renewal of a world that will be a posthuman world, in which the new norm and normative of life becomes life without sight as a new form of social, economic, habitual arrangement, in which sight is understood as something regressive, as something responsible for the almost complete destruction of humanity. This in itself brings about a transformation of the relationship between human and non-human actors, transformations in the flows of belief and desire, and ways of articulating life, which, following Deleuze, is actualized from virtual modulations and temporal variants of events. My perspective is therefore based on the philosophy of G. Deleuze and vitalism in general, and I intend to read the figure of the loss of sight as a kind of counter-actualization of the event: as an effort to negate the effects of catastrophe and at the same time to establish a new ( life) form.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-17984S" target="_blank" >GA22-17984S: Focal images: Violence and Inhumanism in contemporary art and media culture</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Special issue 1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

141-155

UT code for WoS article

001163048000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85186225446