Metonymy
Virginia Kuhn
Abstract
The potentialities of the digital require us to radically reimagine the graphic facet of written language, even as pictures become semiotic units of meaning that can be cut up and pieced back together in a continuous metonymic stream that turns representation on its eye, bearing no indexical relationship to the world. In this environment, narrative breaks down, sovereignty is in unrelenting flux, a constant (partial) dialogue between individuals and institutions. Our digital practices affiliate and separate; we image ourselves by naming our parts.
Identity in w/holes; no longer metaphoric, the "I am" won't do. Lone identities. On loan. All the lonely people. The traditional artifacts don't translate. Invigorate.
Transcript
I.[Opening image: Magritte's] "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."
[title text:]
METONYMY
an EXPLORATION
by virginia Kuhn
II. [Semiotext cover image]: This is Not a Program
III. [Various Images with shifting text]:
this is
not art
not art
this is
not
this is not
a paper
this is not
a presentation
this is
remix
this is
a mixer
When considering remix culture and the affordances of the digital [blinking eye]
the Althusserian notion that ideology is ultimately material is well worth remembering.
[blinking eye]
Althusser argued that an individual's choices, desires, preferences, and
judgments are products of his or her social practices.
IV. Clip from The Ties that Bind:
When I was a kid
I never understood
why my mother hated
fireworks so much
V. Animated face
this is not a man
Further, these practices
help society for the individual
in its own image
[blinking eye]
VI. Scrolling text
MRI |
fMRI |
body data |
body image |
imaged bodies
seeing
not believing
VII. Cover of The Phaedrus
I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus,
that writing is unfortunately like painting;
for the creations of the
painter have the attitude of
life, and yet if you ask them
a question, they preserve
a solemn silence
[276 c8-12]Plato
VIII. [Image Painting] = lie
[Image Painting] = half |truth
worlds of
image pieces
image
word
image
world
eyes
wide
shut
NEW
RULES
worlds of
image pieces
words
in pieces
worlds
in pieces
this is not scholarship
this is not an essay
[kinetic typcography;
but you weren't free]
this is not cinema
cinemetrics
[scrolling text i believe … i love]
not a story
not a lecture
not an argument
not a metaphor
THIS IS METONYM
THIS IS METONYMY
fin
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