Machines of the Visible
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"One of the hypotheses tried out in some of the fragments here gathered together would be on the one hand that the cinema—the historically constitutable cinematic statements—functions with and in the set of apparatuses of representation at work in a society."--"Machines of the Visible" (1971) by Jean-Louis Comolli, incipit |
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"Machines of the Visible" (1971) is an essay by Jean-Louis Comolli famous for stating that "the second half of the nineteenth century lives in a sort of frenzy of the visible".
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