Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2021. Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film. e-flux journal(116), ISSN 2164-1625 [Article]

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One, two, three, four—and a plant framed in the middle of the shot is ripped out from the ground with its severed roots dangling in midair. The seeming oxymoron of a “taxonomy of monsters” can also be displaced and reencountered in the monstrousness of taxonomies as such; they sever specimens from the fluid integrity of the environments they inhabit, and which inhabit them, in order to monstrare: reveal, show, demonstrate. They cut apart the world, just as surgeons cut into the flesh. And what is more uniquely cinematic than the cut? What aspect of film more monstrous?

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Experimental Film, Animals, Modernity, The Occult & Mysticism, Libraries & Archives
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event March 2021 Published
Item ID:	35835
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2024 09:50
Last Modified:	12 Apr 2024 09:50
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35835

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