In an earlier post and against my definition of démontage, I broached the question of blank frames in bandes dessinées (BD) in relation to how our eyes might follow a pre-set pattern across a page of blank frames. Do influences such as narrative, psychosomatic causes (vision-brain-body prompts), habitual expectations and…
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Démontage IV, Bande Dessinée and Palestine: from Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide
In earlier posts, I have written about the connection of démontage as a metaphysical concept and as an idea with political effects: bande dessinée is political but how it is political is neither necessary at a general level nor for individual works. This does not mean that the works cannot…
Continue ReadingEverything Arrives Unmade (Démontage III – through the Art of Cyril Pedrosa)
Over the next few posts I’ll be developing my work on bande dessinée (BD) and démontage into a book length project. The aim is to suggest that ideas taken from the form of BD can be applied much more widely and that the concept of démontage can be of interest…
Continue ReadingPerishing and Démontage in the Works of Jean-Marc Rochette: a Process Philosophy of Life and Death (Démontage II)
This post was partly written in preparation for a (storm-affected) contribution to the ERC funded project ‘Film and Death‘ led by Susana Viegas at IFILNOVA. J’ai moi-même souvent vécu ces temps d’intersection entre la vie et la mort. [I too have often lived through such times of intersection between life…
Continue ReadingTime and One-way Events: Bande Dessinée as Démontage (Deleuze’s Timed Logic, VII; Démontage I)
[To give a sense of the bande dessinées referred to in this discussion I have included covers and links to publishers. Many of them give sample pages of their books on their websites, should you want to follow them up. I make no financial benefit from these links. They are…
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