{"product_id":"9798765126677","title":"Hyperchaos Cinema Meillassoux and French Film After Finitude","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThinking Cinema\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eHyperchaos Cinema\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMeillassoux and French Film After Finitude\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrédéric Brayard | David Martin-Jones | Sarah Cooper\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyperchaos Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e develops a film-philosophy that resonates with the Speculative Turn and the Nonhuman Turn. Engaging with the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, it argues that the absolute, the real independent from us, consists in what Meillassoux calls absolute contingency, or the possibility for everything to be what it is not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the beginning of the 21st century, the proliferating assemblages of human and digital images that shape our daily experience of reality have created a complex relationship between human thought, filmic thought and the world. \u003ci\u003eHyperchaos Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e posits that digital cinema can think the real, understood as what exists without us, without neither thought nor subjectivity. Hyperchaos is the time through which absolute contingency expresses itself, which can change anything at any moment and for no reason. This book explores digital cinema's ability to produce images that can express the being-other of any sound, image, movement, entity or process in a cinematic time that allows any possible change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe films explored, including \u003ci\u003eRubber\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHoly Motors\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBird People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRéalité\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Image Book,\u003c\/i\u003e shift their paradigm of time from the human-centred perspective of duration, process and becoming to hyperchaos. The analysis illuminates how film can produce images of diegetic worlds no longer regulated by stable, immutable rules. By considering how hyperchaos cinema eschews both anthropocentric and anthropomorphic positions, \u003ci\u003eHyperchaos Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative to film-philosophies that develop human and post-human paradigms and suggests a film ethics for a world in which human subjectivity is neither central, nor necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrédéric Brayard\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in French and French Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 January 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765126677\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e224\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55335406305420,"sku":"9798765126677","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798765126677","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}