Justin Remes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4855494 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Remes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Remes |
| SIGNATURE | REMES J |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0378-6462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Serious immobilities: Andy Warhol, Erik Satie and the furniture film
In the early twentieth century, Erik Satie argued for the necessity of ‘furniture music’. Such compositions would not monopolize the audience's attention, but would instead serve as the backdrop for other experiences. This essay suggests that Satie's formulation provides a useful framework for understanding the early cinema of Andy Warhol. While films like Sleep (1963) and Empire (1964) are often conceptualized as experiments in boredom, I claim …
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
Since cinema's inception, there has been much disagreement among film theorists about the role of movement in cinema's ontology. For example, while Rudolf Arnheim has argued that motion is a sine qua non of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's ontology as duration, an experiential "unfolding." In this dissertation, I argue—following Barthes—that movement is merely a contingent, not a necessary, condition o…
Apocalyptic Premeditations
The administration of George W. Bush mobilized support, in part, through its use of what media theorist Richard Grusin calls premediation, the evocation of potential futures in an attempt to modulate affective states. This essay argues that the premediatory logic of the Bush administration is best understood by linking it with the apocalyptic tradition. Bush, like the apocalypticists before him, used vague, disastrous premonitions to engender vul…
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
Since cinema's inception, there has been much disagreement among film theorists about the role of movement in cinema's ontology. For example, while Rudolf Arnheim has argued that motion is a sine qua non of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's ontology as duration, an experiential "unfolding." In this dissertation, I argue—following Barthes—that movement is merely a contingent, not a necessary, condition o…
Apocalyptic Premeditations
The administration of George W. Bush mobilized support, in part, through its use of what media theorist Richard Grusin calls premediation, the evocation of potential futures in an attempt to modulate affective states. This essay argues that the premediatory logic of the Bush administration is best understood by linking it with the apocalyptic tradition. Bush, like the apocalypticists before him, used vague, disastrous premonitions to engender vul…
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis
Since cinema's inception, there has been much disagreement among film theorists about the role of movement in cinema's ontology. For example, while Rudolf Arnheim has argued that motion is a sine qua non of cinema, Roland Barthes has insisted that motion is not as central to cinema's ontology as duration, an experiential "unfolding." In this dissertation, I argue—following Barthes—that movement is merely a contingent, not a necessary, condition o…
Serious immobilities: Andy Warhol, Erik Satie and the furniture film
In the early twentieth century, Erik Satie argued for the necessity of ‘furniture music’. Such compositions would not monopolize the audience's attention, but would instead serve as the backdrop for other experiences. This essay suggests that Satie's formulation provides a useful framework for understanding the early cinema of Andy Warhol. While films like Sleep (1963) and Empire (1964) are often conceptualized as experiments in boredom, I claim …
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works)