Laura Mcmahon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 483155 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Mcmahon |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Mcmahon |
| FIRMA | MCMAHON L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0629-7904 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Choreographing Histories
This article explores an increasingly distinct tendency in Black feminist experimental film and video to turn to dance as a way of reimagining colonial histories, archives, and afterlives. In the works of Onyeka Igwe and The Otolith Group, a feminist impetus intersects with decolonial concerns as they speculatively sift through, and radically rework, the legacies of Britain’s imperialist histories, from the gestures of dance responding to colonia…
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Intruder
Disordering archives
This article explores forms of archival disordering and critical fabulation in the work of British-Nigerian filmmaker Onyeka Igwe. Igwe returns repeatedly to the question of colonial archives, often from a feminist perspective, as exemplified through her focus on the Aba Women’s War of 1929 in No Dance, No Palaver (2017-18), a trio of three short videos. Reworking scenes of dance extracted from colonial moving images, Igwe deploys various experim…
The Poverty and Richness of the Imaginary
There is an ambiguity in Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Imaginary (1940). On the one hand, Sartre describes mental images as impoverished in contrast to the fullness and depth of the world of perception. On the other hand, Sartre identifies the imagination with human freedom, and in this sense the imaginary can be seen as an enrichment of the real. This paper explores this ambiguity and its import for understanding both racist and antiracist ways of rela…
Occurrence, prevention, and management of the psychological effects of emerging virus outbreaks on healthcare workers
The Separation That is Not a Separation But a Form of Union”
Animal Worlds
The first sustained exploration of the relations between cinematic time and animal life Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life. Through an aesthetic of extended duration, films such as Bestiaire (2010), The Turin Horse (2011) and A Cow’s Life (2012) attend to animal worlds of sentience and perception, while registering the gov…
Animal Worlds
Le cinéma libertaire et libertin
L'Irrespect
This issue of Littératures takes up the theme of irrespect in modern and contemporary literature, philosophy, and cinema. Tracing a lineage of revolt that passes via Dada, surrealism, situationism, and the writings of Alfred Jarry and Henri Michaux, the editor Julien Roumette argues in his introduction for the particular value of considering such works in relation to this theme: far from a gesture of pure nihilism, disrespect is a form of 'provoc…
Dislocation of the Senses
This article examines Jean-Luc Nancy's essay on Nicolas Klotz's La Blessure (2004), a film that draws inspiration from Nancy's L'Intrus (2000) as part of a reflection on issues of immigration, hospitality, and exile. Nancy's essay engages with the sensory dimensions of Klotz's film, posing a relation between cinematic movement and the senses that is articulated by Nancy in terms of scarring, passage, and partage (sharing/dividing). The article ar…
From Homofraternity to Hospitality
This article stages an encounter between the work of contemporary Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and the thinking of the political elaborated by Jacques Derrida. In La Promesse (1996) and Le Fils (2002) the Dardennes explore issues of responsibility, justice, hospitality, and forgiveness, tracing fragile modes of relationality formed on the ruins of the paternal-filial bond. The article argues that Derrida's interrogation of the …
Unwinding the Anthropological Machine
This article explores what cinema can contribute to recent philosophical engagements with animality and what the work of contemporary French filmmaker Arnaud des Pallières in particular can bring to debates around the zoomorphic or 'creaturely' dimensions of film. Examining two works by des Pallières - the documentary Is Dead (Incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein) (1999) and the feature-length film Adieu (2003) - and drawing principally on the w…
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Spacing of the World
Moving between Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on world-forming, community and the artwork, this article argues that the question of space in Nancy's work raises key issues which connect the ethical and the political to the aesthetic. Nancy configures space in terms of the sharing and distribution of singular plural beings, as that which disperses the totality of the global and extends as the condition of justice. Tracing this elaboration of space t…
Images des corps/corps des images au cinéma
J. Game (Ed.), Lyon, ENS Editions, 2010, 256 pp, 29.00 €, ISBN 978 28478 82124 The end of Philippe Grandrieux's La Vie nouvelle (2002) proposes a terrifying vision of being that reconfigures bodies
The Justice of Images
Jacques Derrida's Échographies de la télévision (1996) and Jean-Luc Nancy's L'Évidence du film (2001) mark two instances of philosophical reflection upon the ways in which cinema might be seen to do justice to worldly existence. Yet, in articulating a cinematic ethics of the look, Derrida and Nancy configure film's relation to justice in significantly different ways. This article traces these points of intersection and divergence both in relation…
Sensing Film
Figuring Intrusion
Lovers in Touch
This article takes as its point of departure Maurice Blanchot's pairing of Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Nancy in The Unavowable Community, and reads India Song, a film by Duras, through Nancy's work on community. Just as Nancy articulates a thinking of community in terms of touch, so Duras develops her own filmic vocabulary of touch to examine questions of being-with, exposure, love and sacrifice against the background of a negative model of com…
L'Intrus (Claire Denis, 2004)
Susan Bredlau, the other in perception
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Spacing of the World
Moving between Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on world-forming, community and the artwork, this article argues that the question of space in Nancy's work raises key issues which connect the ethical and the political to the aesthetic. Nancy configures space in terms of the sharing and distribution of singular plural beings, as that which disperses the totality of the global and extends as the condition of justice. Tracing this elaboration of space t…
Lovers in Touch
This article takes as its point of departure Maurice Blanchot's pairing of Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Nancy in The Unavowable Community, and reads India Song, a film by Duras, through Nancy's work on community. Just as Nancy articulates a thinking of community in terms of touch, so Duras develops her own filmic vocabulary of touch to examine questions of being-with, exposure, love and sacrifice against the background of a negative model of com…
L'Intrus (Claire Denis, 2004)
Figuring Intrusion
Lovers in Touch
This article takes as its point of departure Maurice Blanchot's pairing of Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Nancy in The Unavowable Community, and reads India Song, a film by Duras, through Nancy's work on community. Just as Nancy articulates a thinking of community in terms of touch, so Duras develops her own filmic vocabulary of touch to examine questions of being-with, exposure, love and sacrifice against the background of a negative model of com…
Sensing Film
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Spacing of the World
Moving between Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on world-forming, community and the artwork, this article argues that the question of space in Nancy's work raises key issues which connect the ethical and the political to the aesthetic. Nancy configures space in terms of the sharing and distribution of singular plural beings, as that which disperses the totality of the global and extends as the condition of justice. Tracing this elaboration of space t…
Images des corps/corps des images au cinéma
J. Game (Ed.), Lyon, ENS Editions, 2010, 256 pp, 29.00 €, ISBN 978 28478 82124 The end of Philippe Grandrieux's La Vie nouvelle (2002) proposes a terrifying vision of being that reconfigures bodies
The Justice of Images
Jacques Derrida's Échographies de la télévision (1996) and Jean-Luc Nancy's L'Évidence du film (2001) mark two instances of philosophical reflection upon the ways in which cinema might be seen to do justice to worldly existence. Yet, in articulating a cinematic ethics of the look, Derrida and Nancy configure film's relation to justice in significantly different ways. This article traces these points of intersection and divergence both in relation…
From Homofraternity to Hospitality
This article stages an encounter between the work of contemporary Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and the thinking of the political elaborated by Jacques Derrida. In La Promesse (1996) and Le Fils (2002) the Dardennes explore issues of responsibility, justice, hospitality, and forgiveness, tracing fragile modes of relationality formed on the ruins of the paternal-filial bond. The article argues that Derrida's interrogation of the …
Unwinding the Anthropological Machine
This article explores what cinema can contribute to recent philosophical engagements with animality and what the work of contemporary French filmmaker Arnaud des Pallières in particular can bring to debates around the zoomorphic or 'creaturely' dimensions of film. Examining two works by des Pallières - the documentary Is Dead (Incomplete Portrait of Gertrude Stein) (1999) and the feature-length film Adieu (2003) - and drawing principally on the w…
L'Irrespect
This issue of Littératures takes up the theme of irrespect in modern and contemporary literature, philosophy, and cinema. Tracing a lineage of revolt that passes via Dada, surrealism, situationism, and the writings of Alfred Jarry and Henri Michaux, the editor Julien Roumette argues in his introduction for the particular value of considering such works in relation to this theme: far from a gesture of pure nihilism, disrespect is a form of 'provoc…
Dislocation of the Senses
This article examines Jean-Luc Nancy's essay on Nicolas Klotz's La Blessure (2004), a film that draws inspiration from Nancy's L'Intrus (2000) as part of a reflection on issues of immigration, hospitality, and exile. Nancy's essay engages with the sensory dimensions of Klotz's film, posing a relation between cinematic movement and the senses that is articulated by Nancy in terms of scarring, passage, and partage (sharing/dividing). The article ar…
Le cinéma libertaire et libertin
Animal Worlds
The first sustained exploration of the relations between cinematic time and animal life Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life. Through an aesthetic of extended duration, films such as Bestiaire (2010), The Turin Horse (2011) and A Cow’s Life (2012) attend to animal worlds of sentience and perception, while registering the gov…
Animal Worlds
Occurrence, prevention, and management of the psychological effects of emerging virus outbreaks on healthcare workers
The Separation That is Not a Separation But a Form of Union”
The Poverty and Richness of the Imaginary
There is an ambiguity in Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Imaginary (1940). On the one hand, Sartre describes mental images as impoverished in contrast to the fullness and depth of the world of perception. On the other hand, Sartre identifies the imagination with human freedom, and in this sense the imaginary can be seen as an enrichment of the real. This paper explores this ambiguity and its import for understanding both racist and antiracist ways of rela…
Disordering archives
This article explores forms of archival disordering and critical fabulation in the work of British-Nigerian filmmaker Onyeka Igwe. Igwe returns repeatedly to the question of colonial archives, often from a feminist perspective, as exemplified through her focus on the Aba Women’s War of 1929 in No Dance, No Palaver (2017-18), a trio of three short videos. Reworking scenes of dance extracted from colonial moving images, Igwe deploys various experim…
Susan Bredlau, the other in perception
Choreographing Histories
This article explores an increasingly distinct tendency in Black feminist experimental film and video to turn to dance as a way of reimagining colonial histories, archives, and afterlives. In the works of Onyeka Igwe and The Otolith Group, a feminist impetus intersects with decolonial concerns as they speculatively sift through, and radically rework, the legacies of Britain’s imperialist histories, from the gestures of dance responding to colonia…
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Intruder
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