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LA GRANDE BELLEZZA: Adventures in transindividuality

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dc.creatordel Río, Elena
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:24:16Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:24:16Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis essay examines Paolo Sorrentino’s LA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY, 2013) as a film where the conjunction of human and milieu maps the immanent links between individual and collective. I draw on Gilbert Simondon’s concept of transindividuality as simultaneously a spatial and temporal process of collective individuation. In making the city and its human inhabitant indiscernible, the film preserves the link between solitude and the collective. The collective arises in a preindividual zone of affects that inscribes a non-conscious form of intimacy among bodies in a shared milieu. I examine two major aspects of the film’s expressions of transindividuality: the artwork as a catalyst for the affirmation of disparate forces coalescing around the dynamic disparation of sacred and profane realities, classical and contemporary art; and the conjoined image of city and human crystallising as successive existential territories that are shown in paradoxical simultaneity. The city-human spectacle shows the body passing through endless processes of individuation. It is the dephasing of temporalities in the city-human body, rather than a judgmental opposition between sacred past and profane present, that energises the film in its ability to capture preindividual forces and affective singularities.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3398
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/la-grande-bellezza-adventures-in-transindividuality/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4167
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectÄsthetikde
dc.subjectKristallisierungde
dc.subjectIndividualitätde
dc.subjectFilmanalysede
dc.subjectaestheticsen
dc.subjectcrystallisationen
dc.subjectdisparationen
dc.subjectIndividuation
dc.subjectmetastabilityen
dc.subjectModulationen
dc.subjectpreindividualen
dc.subjectprofanationen
dc.subjectrelational ontologyen
dc.subjecttransindividualen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personGilles Deleuze
dc.subject.personGilbert Simondon
dc.subject.personPaolo Sorrentino
dc.subject.workLA GRANDE BELLEZZA
dc.titleLA GRANDE BELLEZZA: Adventures in transindividualityen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationdel Río, Elena (2017): LA GRANDE BELLEZZA: Adventures in transindividuality. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 6 (2), 19–36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3398.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:19
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/la-grande-bellezza-adventures-in-transindividuality/
local.source.epage36
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage19
local.source.volume6
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