Us to-Come
Francesco Vezzoli’s Nonconsensual Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157978 |
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| Authors | John Paul Ricco (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-119 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412909354267 |
| OpenAlex | W2148849466 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
A television pilot for a reality show that will never be aired, a trailer for a film that will never be made and advertisements for two competing presidential campaigns that will never materialize. In this article, the author discusses the ways in which Francesco Vezzoli’s films ( No-Love Meetings, A Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal’s Caligula and Democrazy, respectively) in their appropriation of utterly familiar and pervasive media genres of promotion and publicity are practices of invention: artistic, cultural and political. Addressing consensus, the society of the spectacle and contemporary economies of labor, the author presents a critical assessment of the hyper-mediated and thoroughly scripted real in which we live, and suggests ways to re-think a future that would have been more properly ‘ours’, if only we could re-make it now
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Business · Futures contract · Media studies · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Publicity · Sociology · Spectacle · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Games and Media · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Highly cited | No |
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