Enfolding and Unfolding
Enfolding and Unfolding
An Aesthetics for the Information Age
By Laura Marks
Design by Raegan Kelly


Editors' Introduction

For thirty years, film theory has located much of the force of its analysis on the flickering signifiers that dance across the cinema screen, zeroing in on representation as a key site of cultural analysis and theoretical reflection. In particular, cultural studies has asked us to attend to the power of representation as a locus for the formation of subjectivity and identity. This work has produced important insights, but one wonders if such modes of analysis are sufficient to the networked age of electronic information. Can an analysis of representation tell us much about the bitstream?


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