Abstract
Given the rise of digital technologies, there is now more than ever a threat to what Deleuze and Guattari refer to as the Outside. The Outside is essentially a nonanthropomorphic space and time poised at the limit of a world defined by human intentions, interests, and conscious control. With no Outside, reality becomes nothing more than repetition without difference, a pure play of simulations across our various screens. This is the key threat posed by digitization which arts educators should be most concerned with. As an alternative, this chapter returns to the question of cinema, and how cinema’s pedagogy might retain a space and a time to think the Outside.
A control is not a discipline.
(Gilles Deleuze)
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Notes
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For a summative review when it comes to arts education see the collection by Gielen and Bruyne (2012).
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I use this antonym throughout my former work to indicate the confluence of Lacan’s three registers: the non-site of the Real, the sight of the Imaginary and the cite of the symbolic.
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Articulated most succinctly in his 1987 talk on creativity. Available on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DskjRer95s. A shortened and truncated version can be found in Deleuze (1998).
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For the difficulty, if not the impossibility of achieving this state of beatitude see Deleuze (1997). Another translation of this essay can be found in Deleuze (2003). The state of beatitude as a way of life, a mode of living, becomes an affirmative and ethico-aesthetic pursuit wherein there is a minimum of reactive passions, yet the maximum power of acting and existing is achieved. One thinks of great leaders here like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Some may not agree with Pisters (2012) account of the neuro-image, but I see her theorizing the cinema of the digital age, the shift from a ‘cinema of seers’ that happens after the WW2 as Deleuze wrote to a ‘cinema of the brain’ where the neurological imagination has been opened up via the various computer generated tomographical images (CT scans, fMRI).
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Affective fact is developed by Massumi (2005).
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jagodzinski, j. (2015).
Cinematic Screen Pedagogy in a Time of Modulated Control: To Think the Outside.
In: Lewis, T., Laverty, M. (eds) Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art. Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7191-7_8
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