We can only read signs at the speed we approach them.
Focusing on frame: the photograph. A space where time leaves its trace. A
singular multiplicity.
Shifting frames: the movie. A trace where space leaves its time. A multiple
and discontinuous series of singularities.
Frames as lineage, as completion, as sign of the State.
Frames shifted: Singularities and W(holes): relays, verges of circularity,
completion, incompletion . . . . "a perpetual referral to other signs"
(State logic) or "a confrontation between the territorialities and compared
segments from which each sign is extracted (the camp, the bush, the moving
of the camp)" (nomadic thought) (Deleuze and Guattari: _A Thousand
Plateaus_, 119).
>From _A Thousand Plateaus_ (119-120):
"Segmentarity is the law of lineages. Here, the sign owes its degree of
relative deterritorialization not to a perpetual referral to other signs but
rather to a confrontation between the territorialities and compared segments
from which each sign is extracted (the camp, the bush, the moving of the
camp). Not only is the polyvocality of statements preserved, but it is
possible to finish with a statement: A name that has been used up is
abolished, a situation quite unlike the placing in reserve or transformation
occurring in the signifying semiotic. The meaning of cannibalism in a
presignifying regime is precisely this: eating the name . . . . It is
wholly destined by its very segmentarity and polyvocality to avert the
already-present threat: universalizing abstraction, erection of the
signifier, circularity of statements, and their correlates, the State
apparatus, . . . .
Every time they eat a dead man, they can say: one more the State won't get."
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The Coming Relationship between Cinema and Photography: the Hologram
JMC
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