Kill the myth

on moving images, virtual neighbourhoods and détournement

As Appadurai mentions in the extract The Production of Locality (Modernity at Large), our understanding of the local is changing “in a world where spatial localization, quotidian interaction, and social scale are not always isomorphic”. With the rise of virtual spaces, the components of what creates space are rapidly being changed, and with it, our understanding of it. As we are entering an era where space is expanding from being only tangible physicality, I wish to look at the fundament of this new notion of space and how it will affect us. With this I will investigate the role of moving images in the future, as I see this two clearly connected. What is cinema´s role in the new form of locality that we are moving into, and why is it so important to define it? I believe the conjunction between space and moving images will affect us, but what are the possible problems of the two coming together? Leaning on ideas by Marshall McLuhan and Guy Debord, I am attempting to provide some answers to these questions. (Read More…)

In the search of Antagonopia

creating new trans-localities and Utopian spaces

Arjun Appadurai is a social-cultural anthropologist focusing on modernity and globalization. He believes that the nation-state is in crisis, and argues that “current global processes of migration and communication will lead to the deterritorialization of identities in a world which will become culturally hybridized through the growth of diasporic public spheres and the global flow of images, finances, technologies, and ideologies.” He suggests we “think beyond the nation,” by imagining a form of sovereignty that replaces territoriality with trans-localities. (Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. 1996) (Read More…)