# 210.000 - Concepts and Theory Index **[[Affirmative Posthumanism]]** — Strand of critical theory affirming a relational, embodied, non-unitary subject beyond humanism's universal "Human," developed by [[Rosi Braidotti]] out of Haraway's cyborg feminism and Hayles's critique of disembodiment. #posthumanism #affirmative-posthumanism **[[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, encompassing art-science interaction, cybernetic/behaviourist art, and participatory and relational aesthetics. #art-theory #art-science #cybernetics #participatory-art #new-media-art **[[Authoritarianism]]** — Historical and contemporary strategies of resistance to authoritarian regimes, from civil disobedience to digital sabotage. #authoritarianism #resistance #politics **[[Avant Garde Film]]** — The American and international avant-garde film tradition, from [[Maya Deren]] and [[Stan Brakhage]] to [[Kenneth Anger]], [[Su Friedrich]], and [[Jonas Mekas]]. #avant-garde-film #film-theory #experimental-film **[[Black Studies]]** — Interdisciplinary critical-theory field examining Black life, thought, and culture as an object and method of study in its own right, encompassing the Black radical tradition, fugitivity, the afterlives of slavery, and Black feminist and queer critique, from [[Fred Moten]] and [[Christina Sharpe]] to the L.A. Rebellion and Black Audio Film Collective. #black-study #critical-theory #decolonial **[[Camp]]** — Aesthetic sensibility prizing artifice, exaggeration, and theatrical excess, reading "failed seriousness" as a source of pleasure rather than embarrassment. #camp #queer-theory #gender **[[Cinematic Apparatus]]** — 1970s film-theoretical concept treating cinema as an integrated technical-ideological system that produces and positions the viewing subject. #film-theory #dispositif #spectatorship **[[Computer Art]]** — History of computer graphics and computer-generated art, from early accounts published in Leonardo during the field's first decade to retrospective histories of computer graphics and animation. #computer-art #computer-animation #art-history **[[Critical University Studies]]** — The political economy and critical race analysis of the contemporary university, libraries, and academic institutions, including [[Fred Moten]] and Stefano Harney's concept of the university's "undercommons." #critical-university-studies #higher-education #critical-race-theory **[[Feminist Media]]** — Feminist film theory and media, including [[Laura Mulvey]]'s theory of the gaze, [[Judith Butler]]'s account of gender performativity, and participatory feminist media practice. #feminist-media #film-theory #gender **[[Fictive Art and Hoaxes]]** — Art hoaxes, fraud, misdirection, and fictive/paranormal media, including modernist literary fraud and staged séances. #hoaxes #fictive-art #misdirection **[[Flicker and Entoptics]]** — Flicker-induced hallucination, entoptic phenomena, and their relation to structural/flicker film and altered states of consciousness, in the work of [[Heinrich Klüver]], [[David Lewis-Williams]], [[Stan Brakhage]], and [[Paul Sharits]]. #entoptic #flicker #altered-states **[[Forbidden Media]]** — 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]]** — Generation ships as a speculative and cultural concept — multi-generational interstellar vessels whose crews live, die, and are born in transit. #research #subject #generation-ships **[[Genre Studies]]** — Film genre theory, particularly gender and genre in German and international cinema, including the marginalization of women filmmakers such as [[Lotte Reiniger]] within genre historiography. #genre-studies #film-theory #gender **[[Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence]]** — Artificial intelligence, machine learning image/text synthesis, and algorithmic bias. #artificial-intelligence #machine-learning #algorithmic-bias **[[Labor Issues]]** — Labor conditions and workweek policy. #labor #politics **[[Light Art]]** — Art movement and practice using light itself — natural, projected, or electronic — as the primary artistic medium, encompassing kinetic light sculpture, neon and lumia art, and immersive light environments. #light-art **[[Magic and Magick Studies]]** — The history and practice of magic, occultism, and folk magical traditions. #magic #occultism #folk-tradition **[[Media Archaeology]]** — Media archaeology, the history of projection, and moving panoramas, developed by theorists including [[Erkki Huhtamo]] and [[Siegfried Zielinski]]. #media-archaeology #projection #pre-cinema **[[Media Studies]]** — Film theory and media studies, spanning realism, narrative, spectatorship, and media history. #media-studies #film-theory **[[Metaization, Metareference and metalepsis]]** — Metareference, metafiction, and metalepsis across contemporary art and media. #metareference #metafiction **[[Monster Studies]]** — Monster theory, gothic horror, and the queer/trans politics of monstrosity, including [[Jack Halberstam]]'s and [[Susan Stryker]]'s work. #monster-studies #gothic-horror #queer-theory **[[Music Studies]]** — Electronic and computer music, sound synthesis, network music, and related sonic research. #music-studies #sound #electronic-music **[[Performance Art]]** — Performance art, body art, and digital/technological performance practice. #performance-art #body-art **[[Perpetual War]]** — Perpetual/permanent war, the military-industrial complex, and the politics of manufactured reality. #perpetual-war #military-industrial-complex #politics **[[Phenomenology]]** — Philosophical method describing the structures of lived, embodied experience as it is directly encountered, prior to scientific or theoretical explanation. #phenomenology #philosophy #film-theory #the-body **[[Philosophy]]** — Continental philosophy, poststructuralism, and critical theory, in the work of theorists including [[Gilles Deleuze]], [[Judith Butler]], [[Donna Haraway]], and [[Fred Moten]]. #philosophy #poststructuralism #critical-theory **[[Platform Studies]]** — Platform studies, examining hardware/software platforms and their cultural and economic effects. #platform-studies **[[Practice as Research]]** — Academic framework, consolidated in UK and Australian art schools from the 1990s, that treats creative practice as a legitimate mode of research, developed by Robin Nelson, Estelle Barrett, and Barbara Bolt. #research #practice-as-research **[[Puppet Studies]]** — Puppetry theory, including puppet design, the uncanny, and disability and cultural readings of the puppet body. #puppet-studies #uncanny **[[Queer Theory]]** — Queer theory, camp, disidentification, and queer readings of experimental and narrative film, centered on [[José Esteban Muñoz]]'s theory of disidentification. #queer-theory #camp #disidentification **[[Repetition and Seriality]]** — Repetition and seriality as aesthetic and theoretical devices — serial art and music, [[Gilles Deleuze]]'s philosophy of difference and repetition, and structural/materialist film's use of the loop and the repeated shot. #structural-materialist #philosophy #deleuze #seriality **[[Slow Cinema]]** — Slow cinema, contemplative duration, and Deleuzian film taxonomy (movement-image/time-image). #slow-cinema #durational #deleuze **[[Sociology and Politics]]** — Sociology and political theory, including decolonial critique, fugitivity, and white supremacy culture, in the work of [[Homi K. Bhabha]], [[Fred Moten]], and [[K. Wayne Yang]]. #sociology #politics #decolonial **[[Stigmergy]]** — Stigmergy — indirect coordination through environmental traces — in self-organizing and adversarial systems. #stigmergy #self-organization **[[Surveillance]]** — Surveillance, self-tracking, and the conversion of image/space into data. #surveillance #self-tracking **[[Symbolism, Theology, and Occultism]]** — Symbolism, theology, and occultism as interlinked systems of meaning-making relevant to esoteric imagery in art and cinema. #symbolism #theology #occultism **[[Techno Posthumanism]]** — The technological and cognitive strand of posthumanism — cyborg/cognitive media technology, human enhancement, and speculative future human forms — distinct from Braidotti's affirmative posthumanism. #posthumanism #transhumanism #techno-posthumanism **[[The Body]]** — The body as a philosophical, artistic, and political site — embodiment, performance, disability, and the trans/posthuman body, theorized by [[Judith Butler]] as materialized through discourse. #the-body **[[Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema]]** — Third Cinema and socio-political cinema, including anticolonial and Anthropocene-era political filmmaking, extended into a contemporary Indigenous context by filmmakers such as [[Adam Khalil]]. #third-cinema #decolonial #political-cinema **[[Time studies]]** — The philosophy and physics of time, and its treatment in slow/durational cinema. #time-studies #durational **[[Transpersonal and Consciousness Studies]]** — Transpersonal experience, altered states, and consciousness studies, including survey data on paranormal encounters. #transpersonal #consciousness-studies #altered-states **[[Transpersonal and psychedelic cinema]]** — Films and scholarship that depict or theorize psychedelic and transpersonal experience on screen, as in [[Jordan Belson]]'s "cosmic cinema." #transpersonal #psychedelic #cinema **[[Transpersonal Systems]]** — Transpersonal and mythological systems — Celtic otherworlds, burial and ritual architecture, esoteric correspondences, and related symbolic systems. #transpersonal #mythology #esotericism **[[Video Art]]** — Early video art and alternative media, including [[Larry Cuba]]'s computer animation and video art archives. #video-art #early-video **[[Videographic Scholarship]]** — Videographic and audiovisual film criticism, the video essay, and the academic legitimacy of videographic research. #videographic-scholarship #video-essay **[[Virtuality]]** — Cyberspace, virtual reality, and telepresence, including [[Eduardo Kac]]'s telepresence art. #virtuality #telepresence #virtual-reality **[[Vision]]** — Vision as a historically and technologically constructed way of seeing, from classical optics and the modern "observer" to its avant-garde-film and media-theoretical afterlives. #vision #optics #film-theory **[[Visual Music]]** — Visual music — the correspondence of abstract image and sound, from color organs to computer animation, as pioneered by [[Oskar Fischinger]] and [[Thomas Wilfred]]. #visual-music #color-organ