Mapping the Sensible

Erica Carter; Bettina Darsie Malcomess; Eileen Rositzka

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Mapping the Sensible

Distribution, Inscription, Cinematic Thinking

Erica Carter, Bettina Darsie Malcomess and Eileen Rositzka

In the series Cinepoetics Essay

Overview

About this book

In academic and public discourse, 'mapping' has become a ubiquitous term for epistemic practices ranging from surveys of scholarly fields to processes of data collection, ordering and visualization. Mapping captures patterns of distribution, segregation and hierarchy across socio-cultural spaces and geographical territories. Often lost in such accounts, however, is the experiential dimension of mapping as an aesthetic practice with determinate social, cultural and political effects. This volume draws on approaches from film philosophy, media archaeology, decolonial scholarship and independent film practice to explore mapping as a mediated experience in which film becomes entangled in larger processes of historical subject-formation, as well as in dissident reconfigurations of cultural memory. Proposing an approach to mapping through decolonial aesthetics and poetic thinking, the three essays in this volume help define a film studies perspective on mapping as a practice that structures political and aesthetic regimes, organizes and communicates shared realities, but also enables dissenting reconfigurations of concretely experienced worlds.

Author information

Erica Carter, King's College London, United Kingdom; Bettina Malcomess, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Eileen Rositzka, Freie Universität Berlin / Cinepoetics, Berlin, Germany.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of film and media studies, cultural studies, cultural geography, philosophy, post-colonial studies
Pages
- Main content: 150
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Coloured Illustrations: 20
Keywords: Mapping; postcolonialism; cinematic experience; embodied mobilities

eBook

Planned Publication: December 14, 2022
ISBN: 9783110769012

Paperback

Planned Publication: December 14, 2022
ISBN: 9783110768985