Jacques Khalip - Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media

Releasing the Image

Releasing the Image

FROM LITERATURE TO NEW MEDIA

EDITED BY

Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

Stanford University Press

Stanford, California

2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

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This book has been published with the assistance of the Faculty Development Fund and the Office of the Vice President for Research at Brown University.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Releasing the image : from literature to new media / edited by Jacques Khalip and Robert Mitchell.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8047-6137-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-8047-6138-3 (pbk : alk. paper)

1. Image (Philosophy) 2. Phenomenology. 3. Philosophy, Modern. I. Khalip, Jacques, 1975 editor of compilation. II. Mitchell, Robert (Robert Edward), 1969 editor of compilation.

B105.I47R45 2011

121.68dc22

2010050536

E-book ISBN: 978-0-8047-7911-1

Acknowledgments

The strength of an edited volume depends largely upon the sum of its parts, so we take pleasure in thanking our authors for their contributions, as well as for their patience and sustained interest in our project. In addition, warm thanks to our superb editor at Stanford, Emily-Jane Cohen, for welcoming the book and steering it along many critical straits, and to Sarah Crane Newman, Tim Roberts, and Cynthia Lindlof for handling our numerous editorial, production, and copyediting concerns. Several people provided great help and intervened at important times: David L. Clark, Kevin McLaughlin, Amanda Minervini, Suzanne Nacar, Inga Pollmann, Michael Powers, Thangam Ravindranathan, Deb Reisinger, Jenny Rhee, Jimmy Richardson, and Pierre Saint-Amand. Finally, we would like to recognize the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the Office of the Vice-President for Research at Brown University for their generous material assistance.

Contributors

GIORGIO AGAMBEN, an Italian philosopher and radical political theorist, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Venice. Stanford University Press has published eight of his previous books: Homo Sacer (1998), Potentialities (1999), The Man Without Content (1999), The End of the Poem (1999), The Open (2004), The Time That Remains (2005), What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays (2009), and Nudities (2010).

CESARE CASARINO is Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis (2002), co-author (with Antonio Negri) of In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics (2008), and co-editor (with Saree Makdisi and Rebecca Karl) of Marxism Beyond Marxism (1996), as well as author of numerous essays on literature, cinema, and philosophy.

PETER GEIMER is Professor of Art History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His recent publications include Theorien der Fotografie (2009) and Bilder aus Versehen. Eine Geschichte fotografischer Erscheinungen (2010).

MARK B. N. HANSEN is Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. He is author of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (2000), New Philosophy for New Media (2004), and Bodies in Code (2006), as well as numerous essays on cultural theory, contemporary literature, and media. He has co-edited three volumes: The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (with Taylor Carman, 2004), Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second Order Systems Theory (with Bruce Clarke, 2009), and Critical Terms for Media Studies (with W. J. T. Mitchell, 2010). He is currently writing a study of the technicity of time-consciousness that explores the transduction of time and media in relation to the computational and neuroscientific revolutions.

JACQUES KHALIP is Associate Professor of English and of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession (2009).

JEAN-LUC MARION is Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne and Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology in the Divinity School, the Committee on Social Thought, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. In 1992, he was awarded the Grand Prix de Philosophie from the Acadmie Franaise. He is the author of many books, including God Without Being (1991), Cartesian Questions (1999), Being Given (2002), The Crossing of the Visible (2004), In Excess: Studies in Saturated Phenomena (2004), The Erotic Phenomenon (2006), On the Ego and on God (2008), The Visible and the Revealed (2008), and Descartess Grey Ontology (2010).

KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres and Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature (1995) and Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age (2005); he is co-translator of Walter Benjamins Arcades Project (1999). His current project is entitled Poetry After Kant: Poetic Force in Hlderlin, Baudelaire, and Arnold.

ROBERT MITCHELL is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. He is author of Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (2007) and Bioart and the Vitality of Media (2010); and co-author, with Catherine Waldby, of Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (2006). He is also co-author, with Helen Burgess and Phillip Thurtle, of the DVD-ROM Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information (2008); and co-editor, with Phillip Thurtle, of Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (2002) and Data Made Flesh (2003). With Phillip Thurtle, he co-edits the book series In Vivo: Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science (University of Washington Press).

TIMOTHY MURRAY is Director of the Society for the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University. He is Founding Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library and Co-Curator of CTHEORY Multimedia. He is currently working on a book, Immaterial Archives: Curatorial Instabilities @ New Media Art, which is a sequel to Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (2008). His previous books include Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (1993); Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, and Art (1997); Zonas de Contacto (1999); and the edited volume, Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (1997).

FOREST PYLE is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oregon. He is the author of The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism (1995) and a forthcoming book entitled