Articles in english
Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Body without Organs at the Limits of Perception
In: Deleuze and Guattari and the Psychedelic Revival. Special Issue Deleuze and Guattari Studies 17(4), 2023, 583-603. See PDF here.
Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen: Psychedelic Revival
In: Worlding the Brain: Neurocentrism, Cognition, and the Challenge of the Arts and the Humanities. Stephan Besser and Flora Lysen, eds. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023, 173-187. See PDF here.
SPEP Plenary Address: Thinking with Fire: Elemental Philosophy and Media Technology
In: Journal of Speculative Philosophy 37 (3), 2023, 271-294. See PDF here.
Canary in a Coal Mine: Carbon Cinema and Three Ecologies of Energy
“Canary in A Coal Mine: Carbon Cimena and Three Ecologies of Energy” In: Pharmacologies of Media, Specia Issue Media Theorie. Vol. 6(2), 2022. See PDF here.
Combustive Knowledge: Fire as Medium and Interface
In: Communication+1. Vol. 9, issue 1, 2022. Download here.
Transgressive Intimacy: Liberty, Lust and Longing in the City
In: Extra Extra Magazine, Issue 16, 2021, pp. 150-157. See for PDF of this article here.
Carrie’s Sisters: New Blood in Contemporary Female Horror Cinema
In: Re-Reading the Monstrous Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Nicholas Chare, Jeanette Hoorn and Audrey Yue, eds. New York: Routledge 2020, 112-137. See here for a PDF of the article (these are the proofs). See for full information about the book here.
Now is the time of Monsters: Roundtable on Contemporary Horror
New Review of Film & Television Studies published on online round table on contemporary horror (2021). Contributions by Amanda Howell, Patricia Pisters, James Rendell, Emma Train, Johnny Walker, Harry Warwick and Brandon West. See PDF here.
“Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again: Multiple Windows in a Delirious Time Machine”
In Edward Dimendberg, ed. The Moving Eye: Film, Television, Architecture, Visual Art, and the Modern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. The PDF of this article here.
“Deep Blue Geomediations: Following Lapis Lazuli in Three Ecological Assemblages”
In: Rock Records, eds. Paul Harris. Richard Turner and Adam Nocek. Substances, vol. 47:2, 2018 (Issue 146): 36-58. Published by Johns Hopkins University. Download PDF here.
Two Posthuman Entrees: BwO and Neuronal Aesthetics
In: Posthuman Glossary, ed. by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), pp. 74-76 & 285-287. Download PDF here.
Orchestration of the Senses in Yellow: Eisenstein’s Fourth Dimension, Memory and Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia
In: Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia: Thresholds of Empathy with Art. Oxford University Press, 2017, 71-90. Read in PDF here.
Wandering Off. In Conversation with Kerstin Ergenzinger and Patricia Pisters
In: Navigating Noise, ed. by Nathanja van Dijk, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Christian Kessung, Sebastian Schwesinger. Berlin: Walter Konig, 2017, 110-121. Read PDF here.
Metallurgic Fashion: Rabane, McQueen, Van Herpen
“Metallurgic Fashion: Sartorial Transformations in Changing Techno-Mediated Worlds” in Adriano D’Aloia, Marie-Aude Baronian & Marco Pedroni (eds.),Fashionating Image: Audiovisual Media Studies Meet Fashion. Special Issue Comunicazioni sociali, n. 1 : 2017 Vita e Pensiero / Pubblicazioni dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, 43-52. Find here the article in PDF here.
“An Eye for Freedom: Spinoza and Terstall in Amsterdam”
Urban Europe: Fifty Tales of the City. Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen, eds.. Amsterdam: AUP, 2016, pp. 309-316. Read here in PDF.
“I Just Want to Be Perfect: Affective Compulsive Movement in Black Swan”
In: Cine-files, Issue 10, 2016. Dossier on Cinematic Affect, ed. by Anne Rutherford. My contribution deals with OCD in the form of dancing & GIFs.
Here you can read the version including GIFs (though the GIFs tend to disappear quickly. A version without GIFs can be downloaded as PDF here.
Our culture has become too complex to understand things in disciplinary isolation
An Interview with Patricia Pisters in the Newsletter of SMART Cognitive Science, 10 May 2016. Download in PDF here.
The Future is Now in Post-Cinema
“Flashforward: The Future is Now” (reivised version) in Shane Denson and Julia Leyda, eds. Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st Century Cinema. Falmer: Reframe Books, 2016. pp. 1-26. Download PDF here. Read the entire issue here.
The Neurothriller (popular version)
In AEON – Ideas and Culture. 8 February 2016.
The Filmmaker as Metallurgist: Political Cinema and World Memory
In Film-Philosophy 20:1 (2016), pp. 149-167.
Download PDF here. This article is part of a special issue on Film-Philosophy and a World of Cinemas, edited by David Martin-Jones. The entire issue is available in Open Access at Edinburgh University Press here.
New Materialism: Intra-Agential Entanglements and the Neuro-Image
Special Issue on New Materialism, Cultural Studies Review volume 21 number 2 September 2015, pp. 120-144. Download PDF here . The issue can be found here.
Memory is no longer what is used to be
In: Sebastian Groes, ed. Memory in the Twenty-first Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities and Sciences (New York: Palgrave, 2015, 213-216). Download PDF here.
Deleuze’s Metallurgic Machines
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) of 8 November 2015 has published a special issue “The Event of Life” on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of Gilles Deleuze. Arne de Boever and Brad Evans asked scholars what might be said about Deleuze today. Contributions by Adrian Parr, Brian Massumi, Greg Lambert, Bracha L. Ettinger and Patricia Pisters (‘Deleuze’s Metallurgic Machines‘).
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 here.
Jams, Loops, and Downward Spirals in the Academic System
Published in Open! Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain, 9 June 2015. Download PDF here.
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 in 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 here.
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 here.
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 10.1080/14797585.2014.920186.
The article can be downloaded from Taylor Francis online here or download PDF here.
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 here.
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. Download PDF here.
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. Download PDF here.
Art as Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect
In: Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics. Ed. by Bettina Pepenburg and Marta Zarzycka (London and New york: I.B. Tauris, 2013), pp. 198-213. Download PDF here.
Priming the Future: Martine Stig’s ‘Cauchy Horizons’
A short essay on Martine Stig’s work in Motive Gallery (Brussels)
Download PDF English here; Dutch here; French here.
Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken’s Global Amsterdam
In: Marco de Waard (ed.), Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture and Geography in a World City. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, pp. 125-141. Download article here.
The Mosaic Film: Nomadic Style and Politics in Transnational Media Culture
In: Thamyris Intersecting 23 (2011): pp.175-190. Mieke Bal and Miguel Á. Hernández-Navarro, eds. Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture. Conflict, Resistance, and Agency. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Download PDF here.
Flashforward: The Future is Now
Deleuze Studies, 5 supplement ‘Deleuzian Futures’ (2011): pp. 98-115. Download PDF here.
Synaptic Signals: Time Travelling Through the Brain in the Neuro-Image
In: Deleuze Studies 5.2 (2011): pp. 261-274. Download PDF here.
Plasticity and the Neuro-Image: A Response to Catherine Malabou’s What Should we do with our Brain?
This is the text of an oral response at a symposium on Plasticity and the Brain in Amsterdam (ASCA), 13 November 2011. In PDF here.
The Mythological Power of Avatar
In: De Filmkrant, vol.318 (2010). Read article at Filmkrant.nl here.
Violence and laughter: paradoxes of nomadic thought in postcolonial cinema
In: S. Bignall, P. Patton (eds.). Deleuze and the postcolonial. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, pp. 201-219. Download PDF here.
Numbers and fractals: neuroaesthetics and the scientific subject
In: P. Gaffney (ed.). The force of the virtual: Deleuze, science, and philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010, pp. 229-251. Download PDF here.
Logistics of perception 2.0: multiple screen aesthetics in Iraq War films
In: Film-Philosophy, Vol. 14 (2010): pp. 232-252. Download in PDF here.
Filming the times of Tangier: nostalgia, postcolonial agency, and preposterous history
In: D. Iordanova, D. Martin-Jones, B. Vidal (eds.). Cinema at the periphery. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010, pp. 175-189. Download PDF here.
Homi K. Bhabha
In: Felicity Colman, ed. Film, Theory and Philosophy. The Key Thinkers. Durham: Acumen, 2009, pp. 296-307. Find the chapter in PDF here.
Delirium Cinema or Machines of the Invisible
In: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema. Ian Buchanan and Patricia MacCormack, eds. London: Continuum, 2008, pp. 102-115. In PDF here.
Refusal of Reproduction: Paradoxes of Becoming-Woman in Transnational Moroccan Filmmaking
In: Katarzyna Marciniak, Aniko Imre, and Aine O’Healy (eds.). Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007) pp. 71-92. Find the article in PDF here.
The Spiritual Dimension of the Brain as Screen Zigzagging from Cosmos to Earth (and Back)
In: Robert Pepperel and Michael Punt (eds.). Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and the World. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 123-137. Read in PDF here.
Arresting the Flux of Images and Sounds
In: Ian Buchanan and Adrian Parr (eds.). Deleuze and the Contemporary World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp. 175-193. Read the article in PDF here.
Micropolitics of the Migrant Family in Accented Cinema
In: Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat (eds.). Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005, pp. 197-212. Find the PDF here.
Touched by Cardboard Sword
Joost de Bloois, Sjef Houppermans, Frans-Willem Korsten (eds.). Discernments: Deleuzian Aesthetics. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (2004) pp. 151-169. Find the PDF here.
On Becoming-Woman and Cyborg Alices
Conceptual Personae and Aesthetic Figures of Becoming-Woman from The Matrix of Visual Culture (Stanford University Press, 2003). Read the chapter in PDF here.
Becoming-Animal and Logic of Sensations
This is a chapter from The Matrix of Visual Culture (Stanford University Press, 2003) which may resonate with current interest in new materialism, film, philosophy and the non-human. Read the chapter in PDF here.
Micropolitics: Introduction
In: Patricia Pisters (ed), Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press – Film Culture in Transition, 2002. Read the introduction here.
Glamour and Glycerine
In: Patricia Pisters (ed), Micropolitics of Media Culture: Reading the Rhizomes of Deleuze and Guattari. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press – Film Culture in Transition, 2002. Download PDF here.
Filmic Images in Art: Molecular Processes of Becoming
In: Screen-Based Art. Ed. by Annette Balkema and Henk Slager. L&B (Lier en Boog) Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory. Volume 15. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999, pp. 107-114. Here you can find the contribution of Patricia Pisters to the Symposium Filmic Images (about Pipilotti Rist, Harun Farocki and Jean-Luc Godard). The other contributors were Chris Dercon and Ed Tan.
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