Schizoanalytic Ventures at the End of the World: Film, Video, Art, and Pedagogical Challenges

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This book provides a thorough application of theoretical ideas from Deleuze and Guattari to a series of examples drawn from contemporary film and new media arts. Chapters demonstrate examples of how to do schizoanalysis in philosophically informed cinema studies, new media, and arts based education. Schizoanalysis, as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari in distinction to Lacanian psychoanalysis, provides an imaginary basis to address the precarity of the contemporary world order: from the growing populism with its authoritarian fascist tendencies to the growing concerns regarding climate change within the Anthropocene. Part I of this book initiates this understanding through cinematic examples. Part II calls for a schizoanalytic pedagogical imagination, which is needed to provide insight into the structures of desire as they circulate in media, especially videogames, and the tensions between analogue and digital technological manifestations. Such pedagogy enables an understanding of the ‘new materialism’ where nonhuman and inhuman (AI) agencies are taken into account. To this end schizoanalytic pedagogy calls for a ‘new earth’ of transformed values and relationships. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introduction: Schizoanalytic Ventures (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Schizo Times in Cinematic Thought (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 29-42 Repeating The Butterfly Effect: Schizo Endings (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 43-65 Migrant Subjectivity and Territory Rethought (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 67-80 The Schizos of The Broken Circle Breakdown (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 81-94 Dreamland Welcomes You: Last Resort (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 95-116 The Batman Trilogy: An Ethics of Evil, the Law, and the Rise of Trump’s Fascism in the USA (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 117-145 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 The Prosthetics of Video Games (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 149-165 Between War and Edutainment (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 167-181 Explorations of the Analog-Digital: In Relation to the Event of the Artistic Process (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 183-199 Artistic Speculations and Pedagogical Challenges: Facing the Anthropocene (jan jagodzinski)....Pages 201-226 Back Matter ....Pages 227-250