[FRIAM] Being someone else

[Jon Zingale]

Yep. This is what I think makes subjects like film theory and its
extensions like critical film theory so central to postmodernist philosophy
(a'la Bergson and Peirce via Deleuze[1]). Even in Bergson's explicit
philosophical work on duration, he leans quite a bit on cinema. A few years
ago, there was a lecturer at St. John's (in in Santa Fe) that fleshed out a
wonderful theory of time travel (via the film La Jetée) through the lens of
Bergson. For years now, I have wanted to contribute my own piece to the
analysis of that film, its conception of duration, fixation on a moment,
and latent references to Euclid's second proposition[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_1:_The_Movement_Image
[2] http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/elements/bookI/propI2.html
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