Harun Farocki's Asignifying Images
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21187599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudio Celis Bueno (0000-0001-9976-100X, Academy of Christian Humanism University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 740-754 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X |
| Publisher | Information Society Research (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31269/triplec.v15i2.874 |
| OpenAlex | W2744909186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
With the recent publication of Signs and Machines by Maurizio Lazzarato and Critical Semiotics by Gary Genosko, the concept of asignifying semiotics introduced by Félix Guattari in the late 1960s is regaining attention. This revived interest responds largely to the rise and consolidation of new technologies of power based on algorithmic control and Big Data analysis. In the new context of informational capitalism, Guattari’s asignifying semiotics appears as a powerful conceptual tool for exploring the role of information technologies in the reproduction of capitalist power relations. This article contributes to this discussion by introducing the notion of asignifyng images in order to explore the role that images acquire in this new age of algorithmic control. To achieve so, this article focuses on Harun Farocki's concept of operational images and reads some of his audiovisual work through the prism of Guattari’s asignifying semiotics. More specifically, this article compares the representational account of labour in the film Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) with the non-representational perspective deployed by the video installation Counter-Music (2004). This distinction between a representational and a non-representational framework responds to the distinction between signifying and asignifying semiotics. By comparing these two perspectives this article attempts to delineate some key elements for a broader reflection upon the transformation of the role of images in the reproduction of contemporary capitalism
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Semiotics · Social semiotics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |