Field-building & interdisciplinary
Gregory Flaxman
Consolidated the early English-language field through The Brain Is the Screen and foregrounded the immanent relation among image, screen, brain, and thought.
Major works
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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