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Penetrating Images: Paranoia in Media Pedagogy

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Using the trope of the reluctant and resistant student who refuses to watch a particular film in my media syllabus, this chapter explores the question of paranoia from the theoretical perspectives of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I bring up the notion of the gaze (Lacan) and the notion of the simulacrum (Deleuze) to worry the psychic penetration that images may have. The ontological status of the image becomes a concern. The essay ends by bringing Jacques Rancière into the mix by raising his notion of ‘sentence-image’ (le phrase-image).

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  1. Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    jan jagodzinski

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

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  2. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Jason J. Wallin

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jagodzinski, j. (2018). Penetrating Images: Paranoia in Media Pedagogy. In: Sandlin, J., Wallin, J. (eds) Paranoid Pedagogies. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64765-4_3

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