Philosophy-Screens : From Cinema to the Digital Revolution

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Contents List of Illustrations Preface: In The Light of Our Screens Acknowledgments Part One: What Is a “Philosophy-Cinema?” Chapter One Sartre and Deleuze via Bergson Sartre Anticipates Deleuze: The Cinema, a “Bergsonian Art” Sartre Quits Bergsonianism and Film Theory Chapter Two The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Merleau-Ponty and the Meaning of Cinema Making Seen instead of Explaining: The Historical Convergence of Cinema and Philosophy according to Merleau-Ponty “The Question of Movement in Cinema” Ontology of the Image as Figure of Mutual Precession All This Being Said: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, and the “Philosophy-Cinema” Chapter Three The Torn Curtain: Lyotard, the Screen, and a Cinema Named Desire For an Ontological Rehabilitation of the Screen The Bias of Desire Specular Wall, Plastic Screen, Cinematic Screen The A-Art, the Acinema, and the Mutation of Desire The Screen to Make Seen, the Screen to Be Made Seen: A Comparison Between Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard Yet, What “Mutation of Desire”? Part Two: The Animated Life of Screens Chapter Four Delimiting to Exceed: The Theme of the “Arche-Screen” Founding Itself with Its Variants The Screen, the Canvas, the Window Apparatuses and Historicities Plato’s Arche-Screen The Invention of the Window and the Invention of the Subject The Screen Rather Than the Window Chapter Five Come Live with Me: The Seduction of the Screens Today The Arche-Screen as a “Quasi-Subject” The Ambiguity of Seduction The Ambiguity of Desire Chapter Six Making Philosophy among and through the Screens The New Prostheses The Screens and 9/11 Subjectification, Individuation, Dividuation Notes Index