Cassandra Xin Guan
Biographic Data
| ID | 286407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Xin Guan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra Xin |
| FAMILY NAME | Guan |
| SIGNATURE | GUAN C X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Mode of Production Is Born
This essay offers a novel interpretation of Old and New (a.k.a. The General Line, dir. Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, USSR, 1926–29), shedding light on the ideological motivations of its famously erotic montage sequences. The peculiar task Eisenstein assigns to montage—namely, inducing a state of ecstasy like an orgasm—is reappraised in the context of the Bolshevik campaign for “primitive socialist accumulation.” In Soviet economic di…
No Way Home
This article renegotiates the problem of the visibility of capital through a conceptual analogy between the concept of primitive accumulation (ursprüngliche Akkumulation) in Marx and the Lacanian account of foreclosure (forclusion). To this end, it examines the evolution of the Chinese New Year film (hesuipian), a holiday film genre in Sinophone territories, through the lens of a (trans-)national experience: the annual mass migration of workers a…
Critique of Flowers
Need, as an epigenetic concept, originated with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, for whom it referred to the pressure of circumstances that compel animals to develop new organs in the course of evolution. It reappeared in twentieth-century science as the somatic disequilibrium that Sigmund Freud, following Psycho-Lamarckian biologists, first called "the need of life" (die Not des Lebens) and then "the drives" (Trieb). The invention of time-lapse cinematogr…
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Critique of Flowers
Need, as an epigenetic concept, originated with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, for whom it referred to the pressure of circumstances that compel animals to develop new organs in the course of evolution. It reappeared in twentieth-century science as the somatic disequilibrium that Sigmund Freud, following Psycho-Lamarckian biologists, first called "the need of life" (die Not des Lebens) and then "the drives" (Trieb). The invention of time-lapse cinematogr…
No Way Home
This article renegotiates the problem of the visibility of capital through a conceptual analogy between the concept of primitive accumulation (ursprüngliche Akkumulation) in Marx and the Lacanian account of foreclosure (forclusion). To this end, it examines the evolution of the Chinese New Year film (hesuipian), a holiday film genre in Sinophone territories, through the lens of a (trans-)national experience: the annual mass migration of workers a…
A Mode of Production Is Born
This essay offers a novel interpretation of Old and New (a.k.a. The General Line, dir. Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov, USSR, 1926–29), shedding light on the ideological motivations of its famously erotic montage sequences. The peculiar task Eisenstein assigns to montage—namely, inducing a state of ecstasy like an orgasm—is reappraised in the context of the Bolshevik campaign for “primitive socialist accumulation.” In Soviet economic di…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Analogy (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Capital (architecture (1 work) · Capitalist mode of production (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Commodity (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)