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Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film
Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
One, two, three, four—and a plant framed in the middle of the shot is ripped out from the ground with its severed roots dangling in midair. The seeming oxymoron of a “taxonomy of monsters” can also be displaced and reencountered in the monstrousness of taxonomies as such; they sever specimens from the fluid integrity of the environments they inhabit, and which inhabit them, in order to monstrare: reveal, show, demonstrate. They cut apart the world, just as surgeons cut into the flesh. And what is more uniquely cinematic than the cut? What aspect of film more monstrous?
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 4, 2021
Category
Film
Subjects
Experimental Film, Animals, Modernity, The Occult & Mysticism, Libraries & Archives
e-flux presents Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory
Salarium
August 28–September 10, 2020
e-flux Film
Category
Nature & Ecology, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Anthropocene, Climate change, Environment, Militarization, Geology, Water & The Sea
e-flux presents Ecology After Nature: Industries, Communities, and Environmental Memory
Asbestos
August 14–27, 2020
e-flux Film
Category
Film
Subjects
Anthropocene, Video Art, Extractivism, Environment, Pollution & Toxicity