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ItemHope: an e-modulating motion of deterritorialization( 2004)What keeps people going after an experience or encounter with an event that damages their sense of human vitality? The sense that is essential for a human organism to function properly: the will to live. The innate drive and joy of encounters and gleaning of skills which children own: the will to play. What causes the loss of one's possession of the will to joy; the curiosity inherent in the pursuit of the unfamiliar or the barely glimpsed; the production of fresh emotional responsiveness with which to claim an experiential event? What reduces the movement and modulations of emotion - e-modulating-motion - to an immobile point? An event that can cause the neural mapping of the traumatized body to return a message to the brain that says 'indifference' or 'despair', causing the body to undo its resident emotion of learned wonder. After a 'bomb sandwich', as Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf referred to the United States' practice of alternately dropping bombs and food over Afghanistan, what forms of hope or revelation could possibly be conveyed to the body of the receiver? The will to eat in the affective zone of probable pain, disability and death.
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ItemDeleuze's kiss: the sensory pause of screen affect( 2005)Imagine, if you will, that screening on the wall in front of you is American artist Andy Warhol’s 1963 film Kiss. Warhol’s anthropological documentary-style fifty minute film is of fixed camera head-shots of same and opposite sex couples french-kissing; passionately. The duration of the kiss on screen is dependent upon the length of 16mm film that Warhol had in his silent Bolex camera at the time, usually 100 feet – enough to make four minutes of screen kiss time. Kiss invokes the screen issues for the reading of this essay: desire, gender, duration, spectatorship, and affect.