A Pharmacology of Cinema

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-8947907

Amelie Berger Soraruff

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Abstract

French philosopher Bernard Stiegler inscribes himself in the tradition of critical theory. In this respect, the influence of Adorno and Horkheimer has been crucial to the development of his own understanding of cinema. Yet Stiegler reproaches his predecessors for not having stressed enough the positive virtues of cinema on culture. For Stiegler the industry of cinema is not simply a menace to the human mind, but a positive medium for its reinvention. It is in that sense that cinema is pharmacological, insofar as it can be either spiritually and culturally enhancing or destructive, depending on how it is acted on. As the article concludes, Stiegler's pharmacology of cinema invites us to take part in our cinematic cultural becoming through the revival of the figure of the amateur. But it does so at the risk of cultural snobbery. While Stiegler does not condemn the cinematic medium per se, he does express clear reservations on the potential of commercial cinema, the pharmacological critique of which remains to be thought.

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电影的药理学

法国哲学家伯纳德·斯蒂格勒(Bernard Stiegler)坚持批判理论的传统。在这方面，阿多诺和霍克海默的影响对他自己对电影的理解的发展至关重要。然而，斯蒂格勒指责他的前辈们没有充分强调电影对文化的积极作用。对于斯蒂格勒来说，电影产业不仅仅是对人类思想的威胁，而且是人类思想再造的积极媒介。从这个意义上说，电影是一种药理学，它可以在精神上和文化上起到促进作用，也可以起到破坏作用，这取决于它的作用方式。正如文章所总结的那样，斯蒂格勒的电影药理学邀请我们通过业余人物的复兴来参与我们的电影文化成为。但这样做有文化势利的风险。虽然Stiegler并不谴责电影媒介本身，但他确实对商业电影的潜力表达了明确的保留意见，对商业电影的药理学批评仍有待思考。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.