The Archivist of Protest: The Attention Economy and Chris Marker’s Use of Détournement in Chats perchés

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI:10.1080/17409292.2023.2225356

R. McLaughlin

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Abstract In his book 24/7, Jonathan Crary describes our contemporary temporality, an always-on existence that detaches itself from any possible political action in the form of a long-term project. A clear example of this temporality, in which a tremendous amount of labor and resources are expended to produce the consensus that no political change is possible or necessary, is the 24-hour news cycle. In Chats perchés (2004), his film contrasting the contemporary French news media with scenes from Parisian protests in the wake of the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the presidential elections in France, Chris Marker takes up Guy Debord’s practice of détournement, reversing the production-consumption flow of images and creating a new situation for thought and action. Marker’s use of voice-over and montage to repurpose the news media and documentary images of protest serves as a means of breaking out of the 24/7 temporality of the spectacle, allowing the viewer to tie the present to previous instances of revolutionary agency and to imagine the possibility of future political change.

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抗议的档案管理员：注意力经济和克里斯·马克在聊天室使用Détourenment

摘要乔纳森·克雷里在他的《24/7》一书中描述了我们当代的时间性，一种永远存在的存在，它以长期项目的形式脱离了任何可能的政治行动。24小时新闻周期是这种暂时性的一个明显例子，在这种暂时性中，花费了大量的劳动力和资源来达成共识，即不可能或不必要进行政治变革。在2004年的电影《查茨·珀西》中，克里斯·马克将当代法国新闻媒体与美国伊拉克和阿富汗战争以及法国总统选举后巴黎抗议活动的场景进行了对比，他采用了盖伊·德巴德的旅游实践，扭转了图像的生产-消费流，并为思想和行动创造了新的局面。Marker使用画外音和蒙太奇来重新调整新闻媒体和抗议纪录片的用途，这是打破这一奇观全天候时间性的一种手段，让观众能够将现在与以前的革命机构联系起来，并想象未来政治变革的可能性。

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期刊介绍： An established journal of reference inviting all critical approaches on the latest debates and issues in the field, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (formerly known as SITES) provides a forum not only for academics, but for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers as well. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal"s primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general. CF&FS is published five times per year, with four issues devoted to particular themes, and a fifth issue, “The Open Issue” welcoming non-thematic contributions.