Status Updates From The Forms of the Affects

The Greenaway chapter is the standout for me so far. I find it impossible to buy the displaced and deferred agency of the affect to itself via passive constructions that work to elide and disavow the embodied human subject as at the very least co-constructing the affect alongside the form (a far less radical but far more probably argument). Despite my qualms, it’s a dazzling thing to read.

The brief pages on “neo-formalism” [sic] and the extension of an all too literal and mimetic indexicality argument (attesting to the materiality of light while denying the materiality—and, crucially, mediating effect—of film stock, gauge, grain, color, etc.) with Barthes have me basically blacking out some of the margins in my copy with question marks and quibbles.

An engaging read, though!

Pending book club discussion, but my initial reaction: this book on affect/film is interesting, well written but I’m not its audience. Found most of the thinking difficult to make relevant or get excited about…