This page contains a selection of chapters and articles that can be accessed online.

Dexter's Plastic Brain: Mentalizing and Mirroring in Cinematic Empathy

In Neurofilmology: Audiovisual Studies and the Challenge of Neuroscience. Adriano D'Aloia and Ruggero Eugeni, eds. Special Issue of Cinema & Cie.International Film Studies Journal.  Vol. XIV, No, 22/23, Fall/Winter 2014, pp. 53-63. Download PDF.

Cutting and Folding the Borgesian Map

 “Cutting and Folding the Borgesian Map: Film as Complex temporal Object in the Industrialization of Memory” in    Ekman, Ulrik, Jay David Bolter, Lily Diaz, Maria Engberg, Morten Søndergaard, eds. Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity, and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2015, pp. 322-333. Find here  PDF.

Transplanting Life

Transplanting Life: Bios and Zoe in Images with Imagination” In Bolette Blaagaard and Iris van der Tuin (eds.) The Subject of Rosi Braidotti. Bloomsbury 2014, 65-71. This article is a companion piece to 'Heart of the Matter' (see below) where I explore organ transplantation in their cinemaptographic mediations. Transplanting Life reads this 'posthuman' problem through the powerful Indian film Ship of Theseus. Download PDF.

 

Heart of the Matter

Heart of the Matter: Bodies without Organs and Biopolitics in Organ Transplant Film”, in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 19:4, 23-36 (2014). See for the full Special Issue on Sacrifice and Cinema of Angelaki the online version here. As editor Costica Bradatan describes in the introduction "In Heart of the Matter Patricia Pisters four films in terms of Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion of the “intruder”: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 21 Grams, Claire Denis’s L’Intrus, Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things,and Leon Geller and Markus Vetter’s Heart of Jenin. What emerges from this analysis is a renewed concept of sacrifice, one that brings about a switch from the original sense of religious offering to that of political and ethical resistance, areligious in nature. Download PDF.

Image as Gesture: Notes on Aernout Mik's Communitas and the Modern Political Film

Published in Journal for Cultural Research, special issue on gesture, ed. by Elisabeth Watkins. First online 21 July 2014. DOI 10.1080/14797585.2014.920186The article can be downloaded from Taylor Francis online here  or download PDF.

A Metaphysical Star War? Celestial Consciousness in Contemporary Cinema

In Sonja Neef and Henry Sussman, eds. Astroculture: Figurations of Cosmology in Media and Arts. Wlhelm Fink Verlag, 2014, pp. 181-194. Download PDF.

The Neurothriller

In: The New Review of Film and Television Studies, January 2014, pp. 1-11.

Open Access for the Full Text at Taylor and Francis Online. Also available via this link and here in PDF.

Madness, Miracles, Machines: Living in a Delirious World without Walls

In: Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part One. Ed. by Arne de Boever and Warren Neidich (Berlin: Archive, 2013), pp. 157-184.   

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