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Janus East and West

multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event

Daniel White

pp. 181-209

Abstrakt

This chapter argues that Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, including its concepts of spatiality, temporality, and phenomenal form, intersects with digital media and late modern industrial technologies, especially high-speed rail, to produce a Janus-faced vision of Japan, old and new. The sensibility evoked by Trinh's digital film event is in the spirit of what F.C.S Northrop called "the meeting of East and West" (1946). Her work shapes an autopoietic perspective consonant with Varela's second-generation cybernetics, Dōgen's Zen, and Bashō's haibun (prose with poetry) to recreate a sense of itinerancy through the multicultural landscape of the Anthropocene.

Publication details

Published in:

White Daniel (2018) Film in the anthropocene: philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 181-209

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_6

Referenz:

White Daniel (2018) Janus East and West: multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event, In: Film in the anthropocene, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 181–209.