Animot Studies

Walking the Borders of 'Inland Empire'

by Tony Richards

A thanatological metanalysis of David Lynch's videofilm 'Inland Empire' that aims not to seek to uncover any... more A thanatological metanalysis of David Lynch's videofilm 'Inland Empire' that aims not to seek to uncover any symptomatic-narratological secrets but to lay open its openings and be open to its openings. The essay also aims to speak to a film theory open to openings and not to suturings or closures. Lynch here uses hd-video with interlacing (instead of a progressive 24p) to augment a sense of real-time anarchy that undercuts the being-towards-death of the filmically codified death-syntax. The film plays with considerable in-attention to the thanatolgical resources of the film archive.

Work in progress...

Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKk2eFV5cqA&feature=related

When Species Kiss: some recent correspondence between animots

by Lynn Turner

published in Humanimalia, 2:1, 2010

Still one of the only papers to treat both Cixous and Derrida's relation to the animot. This essay forms a part of the... more Still one of the only papers to treat both Cixous and Derrida's relation to the animot. This essay forms a part of the opening chapter of my _Machine-Event_ book in which it develops the performativity of the kiss - heightened through its interspecies status in Cixous, Haraway and Carolee Schneemann.
Grateful as I am to the editors and reviewers of Humanimalia, I have reigned in the poetics of the essay somewhat. Imagine more puns and curving complex rhymes.

Seeks-Zoos: some recent correspondence between animals

by Lynn Turner

uncorrected proofs of article published in The Issues in Contemporary Culture & Aesthetics, 2-3, 2009.

Still one of the only (possibly the only) paper to treat both Cixous and Derrida's relation to the animot, in this... more Still one of the only (possibly the only) paper to treat both Cixous and Derrida's relation to the animot, in this case alongside related work by Donna Haraway and Carolee Schneemann.

This essay forms a part of the opening chapter of my _Machine-Event_ book in which it develops the performativity of the kiss - heightened through its interspecies status in Cixous, Haraway and Schneemann.

A much longer version of this paper is now published in Humanimalia