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…
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