Philosophy-Screens
(July 2019)
From Cinema to the Digital Revolution Mauro Carbone - Author Marta Nijhuis - Translator
Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.
In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone analyzed Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and modern painting as it relates to hi...(Read More)
The Flesh of Images
(October 2015)
Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema Mauro Carbone - Author Marta Nijhuis - Translator
Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.
In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty’s often misunderstood notion of “flesh” was another way to signify what he also called “Visibility.” Considering vision as creative voyance, in the visionary sense of creating as a particular presence ...(Read More)
An Unprecedented Deformation
(May 2010)
Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas Mauro Carbone - Author Niall Keane - Translator
Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.
French novelist Marcel Proust made famous “involuntary memory,” a peculiar kind of memory that works whether one is willing or not and that gives a transformed recollection of past experience. More than a century later, the Proustian notion of involuntary memory has not been fully explored nor its implications understo...(Read More)
