Field-building & interdisciplinary
Dork Zabunyan
多尔克·扎布尼扬
Places Deleuzian film philosophy within the reciprocal risks of seeing, speaking, and thinking, while connecting film aesthetics, political images, and contemporary media at Paris 8.
Major works
- 01Gilles Deleuze – Voir, parler, penser au risque du cinéma
- 02Les Cinémas de Gilles Deleuze
Atlas further reading: debates
Begin with how a field is organized rather than with a fixed glossary, comparing how classical taxonomy, cross-media problems, and world cinemas rewrite one another's objects.
How can the field de-centre Europe?
World cinemas de-centre the field by modifying the taxonomy itself.
Taxonomy or generator?
Fixed labels invite mere example-hunting; an open taxonomy requires new concepts to transform existing relations and explain across cases.
How do we use Deleuze precisely?
Test four layers: sensory-motor relation, actual/virtual circuit, audio-visual connection, and regime of truth.
Atlas further reading: concepts and films
Related concepts
- Movement-imageimage-mouvement
Which differentiation—perception, affection, impulse, action, reflection, or mental relation—governs the shot, and how does it alter connections among parts so that the whole changes qualitatively?
→ - Noosignnoosigne
Does the image merely present a puzzle, or does it undo an established whole of thought and force thinking to face the Outside, the unthought, and its own powerlessness?
→ - Fabulationfabulation
Does narration change the actual relation among speaker, filmmaker, and collective?
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Related films
- Man with a Movie Camera1929 · Dziga Vertov / 吉加·维尔托夫
Eye, lens, city, machine, and editing table connect through superimposition and accelerated intervals without submission to a stable human viewpoint. The camera enters movement between things, releasing perception from a centred subject toward matter’s dispersed state.
→ - 2001: A Space Odyssey1968 · Stanley Kubrick / 斯坦利·库布里克
Space becomes a topology of the brain; HAL and humans mirror one another across automatism, choice, and thought’s impotence.
→ - Late Spring1949 · Yasujirō Ozu / 小津安二郎
The vase still life intervenes between the daughter’s smile and tears, placing change within time’s unchanging form.
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Sources
- 01Institutional profileOpen external record ↗
- 01Dork Zabunyan — publications and research profile
Official Paris 8 profile documenting Les Cinémas de Gilles Deleuze and Zabunyan’s film–philosophy research.
Open internal source record →