Reports by Felicity Colman
How can we think adequately about the relation between
knowledge and ethics in societies that are... more How can we think adequately about the relation between
knowledge and ethics in societies that are governed by algorithmic digital systems and objects endowed with agency?
Papers by Felicity Colman
Women: A Cultural Review, Nov 1, 2005
... Third, in Sofia Coppola's 1999 film The Virgin Suicides, friendships between girl-siblin... more ... Third, in Sofia Coppola's 1999 film The Virgin Suicides, friendships between girl-siblings and relations between different adolescent genders create a transversal movement towards a potential site of recoded self, through an appreciation of gendered hierarchies and histories. ...
Chapter 8 Affective Imagery: Screen Militarism Felicity Colman Paradigms of community emerge when... more Chapter 8 Affective Imagery: Screen Militarism Felicity Colman Paradigms of community emerge when there are shifts in social parameters of all kinds. We begin to see what kind of place it is that we inhabit, and how its constitution informs our disposition to that community. ...
Angelaki, Apr 1, 2006
Through direct observation, rather than explanation, many of these artists have developed ways to... more Through direct observation, rather than explanation, many of these artists have developed ways to treat the theory of sets, vectoral geometry, topology, and crystal structure… [they] face the possibility of other dimensions, with a new kind of sight.
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Jun 16, 2005
Choice Reviews Online, Sep 1, 2010
Columbia University Press eBooks, Sep 16, 2014
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meson press eBooks, Apr 27, 2017
The question of affect emerges in the daily realm of routine, and survival; of your physical and ... more The question of affect emerges in the daily realm of routine, and survival; of your physical and existential existence. No matter what the situation or condition in life, as observed, different systems (organisms, bodies, technologies, territories and the things within them) are reactive and generative, corruptible and powerful, colonisable and subversive; that is to say, all systems are subject to affects as much as they are affective, and generative of positive and negative affects within and of a system. This proposition can be tested against whatever the degree of sentience or sensitivity that a system’s responsive domains or bodies may hold. This Spinozist principle of understanding – that every body has the capacity to be affected in positive and or negative ways – provides one of the core axioms for any affect ecology. But if affect is to be taken as more than an indicator of change – a barometer of the change of conditions for a system (be it an organism, field, thing, etc.,) – then how do we describe affect itself? How can the changes that the notions of affect seek to express be registered or measured? How can affect be situated by and generative of a system simultaneously? This question has long been the subject of Marie-Luise Angerer’s extensive research into and analysis of the conception of affect.
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2017
Television frames the two World Wars of the first half of the twentieth century as defining socia... more Television frames the two World Wars of the first half of the twentieth century as defining social moments, with drama writers engaging with the material and experiential consequences of the very powerful polarizing national policies of these wars. Through the screen medium, the experience of war and all of its associated polarising and affective imaginaries offer the opportunity for what Geoff Eley has described as an "active archive of collective identification" (2001, p. 818). Just where and how forms of identification occur provide the grist of the plot and story. Convincing the enemy of its ideological authority was the ambition of the US military machine's mission during the Vietnam War. Named "Hearts and Minds", it is a sentiment which is used as a conceptual figure and a structuring device in many UK dramas. This sentiment-used as an tactic, informs the activities of militarism to deploy the rules of a class-based English system as a normative process that if obeyed, will restore order, and sometimes critically problematise this process whereby a military force attempts to win over a subjugated people. This chapter examines the ways in which 'hearts and minds' are deployed through the English class system on the domestic screen as an axiom of nationalism, given form through the aesthetics of class. A number of television dramas use the narrative arcs of 'hearts and minds,'
Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, 2003
... Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine. Issue 138 (Spring 2003). Lars von Trier [... more ... Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine. Issue 138 (Spring 2003). Lars von Trier [Book Review]. Colman, Felicity (Reviewed by) 1. Full Text PDF (Buy Now - AU$33.00) (64kb). To cite this article: Colman, Felicity. ... [cited 23 Oct 10]. Personal Author: Colman, Felicity. ...
Journal for Cultural Research, Oct 1, 2010
Manifesto forms are used as signals of a time, a place and an attitude. Narrative histories and h... more Manifesto forms are used as signals of a time, a place and an attitude. Narrative histories and historical research for all mediums engage manifestos as historical registers of the time of their production; they are epistemic catalysts that mark specific events and compose ...
Matter, Feb 17, 2020
Cit a tio n Col m a n , F elicity (2 0 2 0) F e mi ni si n g p olitic s: n o t e s o n m a t e ri... more Cit a tio n Col m a n , F elicity (2 0 2 0) F e mi ni si n g p olitic s: n o t e s o n m a t e ri al a n d t e m p o r al fe mi nis t m o d al lo gic s in a c tio n.
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Dec 1, 2010
... London and New York: Continuum, 2006; 8. Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Know... more ... London and New York: Continuum, 2006; 8. Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York and London: Routledge, 2000; 9. Colman, Felicity. ... Ed. Janell Watson. 16.3 (2005): 356371; 10. Colman, Felicity. ...
Although it was formed around the idea of economies of affect, our discussion is interested in th... more Although it was formed around the idea of economies of affect, our discussion is interested in the gestures of communication. In the context of the network, a vector indicates the direction, transference, and control of quantities of things (information, emotion, affect). The vector was articulated by McKenzie Wark in his book Virtual Geography, where he identified the media 'conjunctures' and 'contours' of the affective powers of the media images of events surrounding the first Persian Gulf War (1990-1991). (Wark, 1994: ix) Those same contours have engendered a radial thinking of the forces of the controlling powers of affective spaces and objects. We can make glib observations such as Ericsson and Nokia being companies that draw their heritage from countries still ritualistically invested in maypoles, and naturally part of any dialogue on gesture requires such provocative slips to be as gestural as possible, but the network's traversal of subjective ground determines our radial pursuit. In that spirit, we begin this circular dance with a gesture more familiar; a finger pointing to the nearest pole, and a spoken question: "What is that?" In this identification alone, faith in the symbolic value of the network suffers tremendous pressure from the inchoate flurry of ribbons and leaves that make up the temporal and affective dimensions of life. May Consider a maypole firstly as a sacred site, a home to ritual movement; any geophysical configuration of ritual and memory that activates passage and mobilizes movements of human thought in relation to the elements, the seasons, their bodies, their age; that is-each other body. According to Robert Graves' maddening and lysergic exegesis on the figuring of languages and histories in Europe, The White Goddess (1947) the function of the maypole was the re-establishment of order through a chaotic, wild ceremony. What makes the maypole a paradigmatic site of radical social renewal is transience and impermanence, tied forever into the Bacchanalian rites of spring. Great artificial hill forts and mounds were constructed, especially in England's bronze and iron ages, to oversee valleys and form authority by sheer ability of sight. Maypoles were often forms at these sites, such as Avesbury, Silbury Hill, and Stonehenge, to mark the movement into spring. Manifold ceremonies developed across Europe in the centuries since throughout the month of May, symbolically connecting the maypole to ritual waste, abundance. The maypole, then, is the ur-pole, an unsubtle precursor to the microwave reception stations, relay towers and clustered satellite dishes perched atop our lived-in monuments. The radius vectors of signals, images, calls, videos, GPS searches, wireless connections fan out and fold over each other in arcane systems and patterns, different coloured ribbons connecting the dancers to the movable-and-moving centre. In the modern maypole dances, where flowers are gifted and grafted to the pole each May, we would find an analogue of our wasteful bills, ritualistically sent to us each season and symbolically returned.
apparatus in the 1970s. One of the accusations against apparatus theory was that the stakes were ... more apparatus in the 1970s. One of the accusations against apparatus theory was that the stakes were too high and theory too totalizing. Agamben will not escape this charge. Following Benjamin, it might be said that all of Agamben’s writing is motivated by a will to redemption in which redemption is taken – seemingly paradoxically– as the secular and materialist answer to a world defined by the religious logic of the spectacle. The logic of profanation, of breaking the spell (which cannot itself be conceived as a goal so much as an indeterminate gesture) advocated by Agamben is inextricable from the machine whose economy it seeks to interrupt. This claim so essential to Agamben’s work is effectively drawn out by Noys whose essay is the most sustained attempt in the book to think through the logic of Agamben’s writings on the image and cinema in particular in relation to his larger philosophical project. Along with the other frequently illuminating essays in this volume, it will go a long way towards encouraging further exploration of Agamben’s always suggestive, if sometimes elusive, insights on cinema.
Choice Reviews Online, May 1, 2012
... Embedded in Deleuze's cinema books is an historical account of one of the pivotal di... more ... Embedded in Deleuze's cinema books is an historical account of one of the pivotal directions of film philosophy of the period of 1970s80s, a period that proved to be catalytic for the directions of the respective disciplines of phi-losophy and film studies. ...
Columbia University Press eBooks, Sep 16, 2014
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Reports by Felicity Colman
knowledge and ethics in societies that are governed by algorithmic digital systems and objects endowed with agency?
Papers by Felicity Colman
knowledge and ethics in societies that are governed by algorithmic digital systems and objects endowed with agency?
wave feminist epistemology, examining the material components of such biopolitical images as mattered states of the body.
Keywords: living capital body, Mediatization, technology-image, digital biopolitics, DNA
This vital transformation of aesthetics in turn allows a reconfiguration of the relationship between the domains of art, aesthetics, and philosophy. If aesthetics focuses on sensation, rather than cognition, then artists, musicians, and philosophers alike appear not only as phenomenological and empirical thinkers, but as experimenters with the parameters of the sensible, able to extend our perceptual interface with the world. Rather than artists deferring to philosophers in regard to the meaning of their works, this new understanding of aesthetics suggests that philosophers ought to defer to artists, who are understood as inventers in the realm of sensibility.
New Forms for a Philosophy of Film: creative and political methodologies
19-20 July 2015. Manchester, England.
In this interdisciplinary seminar we seek to discuss research theory and practices that address:
1. What is the form of philosophy that might be adequate to address the material complexity of a filmic or screen based image?
2. In what ways have filmic or screen based images altered the discipline of philosophy?
3. What are the “new” forms of film philosophy being practiced today?
Plenary papers:
Prof. Joanna Hodge (Professor in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan)
Prof. Jason Wood (Artistic Director of Film at HOME and Visiting Professor at MMU)
Papers and panels on:
• Derrida and Film
• Political Forms
• Cosmological Forms
• Philosophy and Film in the Postmodern Era
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Screening: Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida (2014 Directed & Produced by Joanna Callaghan; Written by Joanna Callaghan & Martin McQuillan )
Installation : Dave Griffiths: Extinction Event [GRB130313A]
Registration required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-forms-for-a-philosophy-of-film-creative-and-political-methodologies-tickets-17632146224
Supported by HOME, Manchester School of Art, and MeCCSA Practice Network