Temporal Explorations in Cosmic Consciousness: Intra-Agential Entanglements and the Neuro-Image
November 25, 2015 DOI: 10.5130/csr.v21i2.4323 via Semantic Scholar
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractContemporary cinema has moved beyond Deleuze's movement-image and time-image into a new aesthetic mode called the neuro-image, where audiences experience brain worlds directly from within mental landscapes rather than following characters' actions or seeing the world through their eyes. This essay investigates how these brain worlds aesthetically express an embodied and embedded brain, addressing new materialist dimensions of the neuro-image through cosmic cinema and, following Karen Barad, 'meeting the universe halfway.'
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Sociology Philosophy |
| Key finding | Contemporary cinema has developed a neuro-image aesthetic mode where viewers experience brain worlds directly from within mental landscapes, expressing an embodied and embedded brain. |
Abstract
When Deleuze in the 1980s argued that ‘the brain is the screen’ he introduced the concepts of movement-image and time-image, two different modes of cinema with particular ontological and aesthetic characteristics. Contemporary cinema, however, has moved into yet another aesthetic mode, which I have proposed to call the neuro-image. One of the characteristics of the neuro-image is that we no longer follow the movements and actions of characters in a certain space (as in the movement-image), nor see the world coloured through their eyes (as in the time-image), but we (often quite literally) experience brain worlds more directly, from within mental landscapes. In this essay I will investigate in which ways these brain worlds aesthetically express an embodied and embedded brain, addressing the new materialist dimensions of the neuro-image in a journey of cosmic cinema and, to speak with Barad, ‘meeting the universe halfway.’