Technologies of Seduction Essays -- Seduction Cinematic Body Film Essa

Technologies of subjectionThere can be no question of escaping the twisted system of logic of theoretical writing there are only different slipway of coming to terms with it. (Shaviro 11)Blind Beast (Masumura Yasuzo 1969), Ghost in the casing (Ohii Mamoru 1995), and Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao 2001) sustain the relation between the body and engine room its terrific horror is its seduction. Captured bodies cut, cybernetic bodies hacked, and fattened bodies served. These three films all arrest the viewer and take us to another place, and even in the seduction of representation understood as events (the theory-fiction of film analyses), such films can be understood as narratives, images, and sounds of losing the self in the moment, an abandon to seduction that constitutes a relation between technologies and bodies. The terrific is the pleasure of the seduction, and the horrific the unavoidable and, indeed, infallible trepidation felt in falling into the utterly convincing a nd beguile seducers reality. Steven Shaviros theory of film fatale offers a double-dyed(a) account of what sustains and characterizes the relationship Friedrich Kittler describes between body and technology Wherever media were otiose to connect, human interfaces filled the niche.What is seduction? To answer this question would be to wrick productively, a principle of production that is very much oppositional to seduction. Seduction is something analogous persuasion or convincing, but does not work at a level of cognition. The cinematic image is at once intense and impalpable. On the one hand, film (even more than other visual forms, and in nappy contrast to the articulations of language) is inescapably literal. Images confront the viewer directly, with... ... the same level of perplexity as the productive and representational. The salvation, then, of this argument, a string of mediations that claim to produce an found on discourse or understanding, is in its denied s eductive ulterior. An allurement that occurs vertical where it is not spoken of, and for just the reasons that remain unsaid. Theory against itself is here a most cunning seduction.WORKS CITEDCarpenter, Novella. Avant-Prof. An Interview with Steven Shaviro. Alt-X Press. Dec. 11, 2002. http//www.altx.com/int2/steven.shaviro.htmlCreed, Barbara. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine an Imaginary Abjection. in Jancovich, ed., Horror, The Film Reader. New York Routledge, 2002.Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women. London Free Association, 1990.Shaviro, Steven. The Cinematic Body. Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 1993.