January 2010
5 posts
Code and Execution
Sebastian Franklin: code “represents a formal language that is directly actional. Code makes things happen without passing through the realm of interpretation; it always relates to action resulting from formal processes” (36).
This leads to Franklin’s idea of “executive editing” in contemporary mainstream film; scenes are edited so as to produce immediate audience...
Jameson on postmodern temporality
Even amidst Jameson’s discussions of narratology, which I must admit do not greatly engage me, there are fine observations and formulations which continually emerge, such as the following:
Human time has in late capitalism undergone a kind of structural mutation… Postmodern synchronicity implies…that the multiplication of relationships in the present (sometimes ideologically...
“[T]he replication of the system of late capitalism even within the thoughts and...”
– Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic, page 363.
“In his droll 1989 book Making Meaning, the American scholar David Bordwell makes...”
– Adrian Martin, “Tsai-Fi”
“Hardt and Negri are right: our economy is immaterial now, but that immateriality...”
– Kazys Varnelis, “The Decade Ahead”