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  • Patricia Pisters
  • Url: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/p.p.r.w.pisters
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  • About the user: Patricia Pisters is professor of film studies at the department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Her teaching and research interests focus on questions related to multiculturalism, interculturality, political cinema and media activism, mainly looking at North African cinema and Arab media. Another focus is on film-philosophical questions on the nature of perception, the ontology of the image and the idea of the ‘brain as screen’ in connection to neuroscience.

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Manifesto for a Schizo-analysis of Media Culture

Patricia Pisters | 25 May 2008, 1:48 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

1. Contemporary media are characterized by a stammering stream of an ever growing
schizophrenic ‘logic of addition’.
2. ‘Old’ mass media like television and cinema are not dead but undead.
3. Schizophrenia points to clinical and critical symptoms of a/v culture.
4. The delirium is socio-political and world historical.
5. The cinematographic regime is…