Machines of Articulation: Reading Politics through Aesthetic Operations
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61384984%3A51310%2F24%3AN0000106" target="_blank" >RIV/61384984:51310/24:N0000106 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/152367" target="_blank" >https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/152367</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nja.v33i68.152367" target="_blank" >10.7146/nja.v33i68.152367</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Machines of Articulation: Reading Politics through Aesthetic Operations
Original language description
This article is articulated in three voices of scholars who have worked on questions of war, visual culture, and contemporary political aesthetics that also relates to art and film practices. Media theorist Jussi Parikka, literary scholar Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and visual culture researcher Daniela Agostinho address the relations between images, aesthetics and operations through the lens of two books published concomitantly, Parikka’s Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual and Engberg-Pedersen’s Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form. Both books expand the scope of what Czechoslovakian-born filmmaker Harun Farocki termed “operational images” in his experimental documentaries and theoretical writings from the early 2000s. Through his analyses of the politics of imagery in the military-industrial context, Farocki notably defined “operational images” as images that do not depict or represent but rather perform tasks such as tracking, surveilling, detecting, and targeting. For both Parikka and Engberg-Pedersen, Farocki’s central concept of operational images forms a point of departure for writing media archaeologies of the present. In a three-voiced dialogue, the authors unfold operations as a “machine of articulation,” a conceptual and analytical device that reveals surprising linkages and frictions across different themes, techniques, scales, and historical periods.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60405 - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
ISSN
2000-1452
e-ISSN
2000-9607
Volume of the periodical
2024
Issue of the periodical within the volume
68
Country of publishing house
DK - DENMARK
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
116-139
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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