The becoming-photographic of cinema. (1st December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Colebrook, Claire
• Is Part Of: Philosophy of photography. Volume 6:Number 1/2(2015)
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2015-12-01
• Subjects: Photography -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 770.1
• DOI: 10.1386/pop.6.1-2.5_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-3682

Abstract

Both Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler have sought a renewal of life, perception and philosophy by way of the radical temporality of cinema. In doing so they have, in part, contributed to a long-standing moralism in philosophy that defines itself against the still or photographic image. Rather than see photography as a fragment of a flow of time, and therefore as on its way to becoming cinematic, I argue that the photograph that is cut off from the flow of time provides a more provocative and post-moral way of approaching the relation between philosophy and the arts.