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Surveillance, resistance, and the politics of love: On Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster

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dc.creatorEscobar, Cristóbal
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T12:24:52Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T12:24:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractYorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, a surrealist black comedy that satirises the ideological formation of the couple, portrays three different spaces to represent the conformism of political alliances in contemporary culture. This tripartite structure ⎯ a Pythagorean theorem ⎯ is composed by a city-space, a hotel-space, and a forest-space; the latter two being micro-segments of the city that, by way of antagonistic ideologies, are placed in war against each other. By mapping this system of relations, I seek to connect the normalising powers of society in the film with the issue of surveillance as developed by both Michel Foucault’s disciplinary modernity and Gilles Deleuze’s subsequent paradigm of information. In a second section, and thinking about the tactics that the film’s characters employ to mock the conventions set up by dogmatic administrations, I draw on the notion of resistance as an act that defies the city-Law as well as on the politics of love as a reciprocal law that goes beyond any other law; one that remains hidden, or blinded, for characters to see, for as Shakespeare suggests: ‘love is blind, and lovers cannot see’.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21734
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/surveillance-resistance-and-the-politics-of-love-on-yorgos-lanthimos-the-lobster/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/22947
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNECS
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectfilm philosophyen
dc.subjectcontrol societyen
dc.subjectbiopoliticsen
dc.subjectGreek Weird Waveen
dc.subjectfriendshipen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleSurveillance, resistance, and the politics of love: On Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobsteren
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local.coverpage2024-01-26T02:33:50
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/surveillance-resistance-and-the-politics-of-love-on-yorgos-lanthimos-the-lobster/
local.source.epage271
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Cycles
local.source.spage254
local.source.volume12

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