Gold Rush: Money-Image in Deleuze and Chaplin

IF 0.1 4区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

FILM CRITICISM Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/crt.2022.0001

Charles Miller

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Abstract

Abstract:Tracking similarities between film and money, specifically focusing on connections between the financial economy and the films of Charlie Chaplin, this essay examines the dynamics between the movement of the Tramp and the movements of financial markets. It explores the power of lifeless money to activate and command people, driving them to labor, starvation, and even death, yet also providing them a gold rush of stimulation. What does the power of money and what Deleuze calls its obverse, film, mean for democratic politics, especially in terms of the challenges that it presents to conceptions of political action centered on human sovereignty? Cinematic conceptions—such as movement, emotion, and time—help us think of monetary activity in a new light, as an activity shared between organic and inorganic objects. Moreover, thinking becomes less about isolating objects and more about categories that cannot be nailed down as singularities, like movement or time—realities that escape our ability to conceptualize them as objects. Money is a rush—of emotion and time—and we should begin to use it that way.

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淘金热:德勒兹与卓别林的金钱形象

摘要:本文追踪电影与金钱的相似性，特别关注金融经济与查理·卓别林电影之间的联系，考察流浪汉运动与金融市场运动之间的动态关系。它探索了无生命的金钱激活和指挥人们的力量，驱使他们劳动，饥饿，甚至死亡，但也为他们提供了一种刺激的淘金热。金钱的力量和德勒兹称之为它的反面，电影，对民主政治意味着什么，尤其是它对以人类主权为中心的政治行动概念提出的挑战?电影概念——比如运动、情感和时间——帮助我们以一种新的视角思考货币活动，将其视为有机和无机物体之间共享的活动。此外，思考不再是孤立的对象，而是更多地考虑那些不能被确定为奇点的类别，比如运动或时间现实，它们逃脱了我们将它们概念化为对象的能力。金钱是情感和时间的集合，我们应该开始这样使用它。

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FILM CRITICISM FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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0.20

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20 weeks

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