Article:
(Not) doing it for the Vine: #Boredom Vine videos and the biopolitics of gesture

dc.creatorKendall, Tina
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27T15:52:34Z
dc.date.available2020-01-27T15:52:34Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes an analysis of gesture in relation to Vine videos that use boredom-related hashtags to classify bodily movements and gestures and to link them to a particular mood, situation, or state of mind. Drawing from Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Notes on Gesture’, the article situates Vine videos within the emergent attention economy of twenty-first century media, which aims to extract profit from even the most mundane of our daily gestures. As I argue, gesture in these videos is marked by an uncomfortable tension between digital network culture’s demand for both entertaining content and sufficiently entertained subjects, and the obdurate state of lethargy and stalled agency that these videos often express. As such, the gestural in these Vines is caught up in the neoliberal logic of means and ends, while also holding out the possibility of interrupting this logic to disclose what Agamben calls ‘pure means’, or the ‘emergence of the being-in-a-medium of human beings’.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13122
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/not-doing-it-for-the-vine-boredom-vine-videos-and-the-biopolitics-of-gesture/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14043
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
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.subjectbiopoliticsen
dc.subjectboredomen
dc.subjectgestureen
dc.subjectnetworked mediaen
dc.subjectpost-digitalen
dc.subjectVineen
dc.subjectBiopolitikde
dc.subjectLangeweilede
dc.subjectGestede
dc.subjectSoziale Mediende
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personGiorgio Agamben
dc.title(Not) doing it for the Vine: #Boredom Vine videos and the biopolitics of gestureen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTina Kendall: (Not) doing it for the Vine: #Boredom Vine videos and the biopolitics of gesture. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019) Nr. 2, S. 213–233. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13122.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:00:38
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/not-doing-it-for-the-vine-boredom-vine-videos-and-the-biopolitics-of-gesture/
local.source.epage233
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Gesture
local.source.spage213
local.source.volume8
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/119293439
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311687

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