# Concepts and Theory Index **[[Animation Studies]]** — Interdisciplinary academic field examining the history, theory, and aesthetics of animation as a medium distinct from live-action cinema. #animation #media-studies #film-historiography #german-animation **[[Art Studies]]** — Field of art historical and critical writing on contemporary practice, with emphasis here on art-science interaction, cybernetic/behaviourist art, and participatory and relational aesthetics. #art-theory #art-science #cybernetics #participatory-art #new-media-art **[[Authoritarianism]]** — Notes on historical and contemporary strategies of resistance to authoritarian regimes, from civil disobedience to digital sabotage. #authoritarianism #resistance #politics **[[Avant Garde Film]]** — Core reference concept for the American and international avant-garde film tradition, gathering key filmmakers, theorists, and critical bibliography. #avant-garde-film #film-theory #experimental-film **[[Computer Art]]** — Bibliography on the history of computer graphics and computer-generated art, from early accounts in Leonardo to retrospective histories. #computer-art #computer-animation #art-history **[[Critical University Studies]]** — Bibliography on the political economy and critical race analysis of the contemporary university, libraries, and academic institutions. #critical-university-studies #higher-education #critical-race-theory **[[Feminist Media]]** — Bibliography on feminist film theory and media, including foundational texts on the gaze, gender performativity, and participatory feminist media. #feminist-media #film-theory #gender **[[Fictive Art and Hoaxes]]** — Bibliography on art hoaxes, fraud, misdirection, and fictive/paranormal media, including modernist literary fraud and staged séances. #hoaxes #fictive-art #misdirection **[[Flicker and Entoptics]]** — Bibliography on flicker-induced hallucination, entoptic phenomena, and their relation to structural/flicker film and altered states of consciousness. #entoptic #flicker #altered-states **[[Forbidden Media]]** — Notes on the "forbidden media" trope across folklore and fiction — books, films, and sounds that cause madness or unravel reality — and its relation to hyperstition and memetic contagion. #forbidden-media #hyperstition #folklore **[[Generation Ships]]** — Collected primary references (fiction and nonfiction) on generation ships as a speculative and cultural concept. #research #subject #generation-ships **[[Genre Studies]]** — Bibliography on film genre theory, particularly gender and genre in German and international cinema. #genre-studies #film-theory #gender **[[Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence]]** — Bibliography on artificial intelligence, machine learning image/text synthesis, and algorithmic bias. #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #algorithmic-bias **[[Labor Issues]]** — Notes and links on labor conditions and workweek policy. #labor #politics **[[Light Art]]** — (empty page) #light-art **[[Magic and Magick Studies]]** — Bibliography on the history and practice of magic, occultism, and folk magical traditions. #magic #occultism #folk-tradition **[[Media Archaeology]]** — Bibliography on media archaeology, the history of projection, and moving panoramas. #media-archaeology #projection #pre-cinema **[[Media Studies]]** — Broad bibliography on film theory and media studies, spanning realism, narrative, spectatorship, and media history. #media-studies #film-theory **[[Metaization, Metareference and metalepsis]]** — Bibliography on metareference, metafiction, and metalepsis across contemporary art and media. #metareference #metafiction **[[Monster Studies]]** — Bibliography on monster theory, gothic horror, and the queer/trans politics of monstrosity. #monster-studies #gothic-horror #queer-theory **[[Music Studies]]** — Large bibliography on electronic and computer music, sound synthesis, network music, and related sonic research. #music-studies #sound #electronic-music **[[Performance Art]]** — Bibliography on performance art, body art, and digital/technological performance practice. #performance-art #body-art **[[Perpetual War]]** — Notes and bibliography on perpetual/permanent war, the military-industrial complex, and the politics of manufactured reality. #perpetual-war #military-industrial-complex #politics **[[Philosophy]]** — Bibliography on continental philosophy, poststructuralism, and critical theory relevant to the research vault. #philosophy #poststructuralism #critical-theory **[[Platform Studies]]** — Bibliography on platform studies, examining hardware/software platforms and their cultural and economic effects. #platform-studies **[[Puppet Studies]]** — Bibliography on puppetry theory, including puppet design, the uncanny, and disability and cultural readings of the puppet body. #puppet-studies #uncanny **[[Queer Theory]]** — Bibliography on queer theory, camp, disidentification, and queer readings of experimental and narrative film. #queer-theory #camp #disidentification **[[Slow Cinema]]** — Notes and bibliography on slow cinema, contemplative duration, and Deleuzian film taxonomy (movement-image/time-image). #slow-cinema #durational #deleuze **[[Sociology and Politics]]** — Bibliography on sociology and political theory, including decolonial critique, fugitivity, and white supremacy culture. #sociology #politics #decolonial **[[Stigmergy]]** — Bibliography on stigmergy — indirect coordination through environmental traces — in self-organizing and adversarial systems. #stigmergy #self-organization **[[Surveillance]]** — Notes and bibliography on surveillance, self-tracking, and the conversion of image/space into data. #surveillance #self-tracking **[[Symbolism, Theology, and Occultism]]** — (empty page) #symbolism #theology #occultism **[[The Body]]** — (empty page) #the-body **[[Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema]]** — Bibliography on Third Cinema and socio-political cinema, including anticolonial and Anthropocene-era political filmmaking. #third-cinema #decolonial #political-cinema **[[Time studies]]** — Bibliography on the philosophy and physics of time, and its treatment in slow/durational cinema. #time-studies #durational **[[Trans (post) Humanism]]** — Bibliography on posthumanism and transhumanism, including embodiment, nonhuman becoming, and speculative human futures. #posthumanism #transhumanism **[[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]]** — Notes and bibliography on transpersonal experience, altered states, and consciousness studies, including survey data on paranormal encounters. #transpersonal #consciousness-studies #altered-states **[[Transpersonal and psychedelic cinema]]** — (empty page) #transpersonal #psychedelic #cinema **[[Transpersonal Systems]]** — Extensive notes on transpersonal and mythological systems — Celtic otherworlds, burial and ritual architecture, esoteric correspondences, and related symbolic systems. #transpersonal #mythology #esotericism **[[Video Art]]** — Reference links on early video art and alternative media, including Larry Cuba's computer animation and video art archives. #video-art #early-video **[[Videographic Scholarship]]** — Bibliography on videographic and audiovisual film criticism, the video essay, and the academic legitimacy of videographic research. #videographic-scholarship #video-essay **[[Virtuality]]** — Short bibliography on cyberspace, virtual reality, and telepresence. #virtuality #telepresence #virtual-reality **[[Visual Music]]** — Notes, artists, and organizations for visual music — the correspondence of abstract image and sound, from color organs to computer animation. #visual-music #color-organ