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Medialita nepřítomného subjektu. Estetika absence, dianarace a postmoderní impulzy „Prázdné židle“ Richarda Weinera

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Jirsa T.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2017

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vol. 55

109-131

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This paper deals with the aesthetics of absence and pre-postmodern strategies as carried out in the short story “Prázdná židle [Empty Chair]” (1916) by Richard Weiner. Drawing on the methodological fusion of narrative analysis, media philosophy, and visual anthropology, I argue that Weiner’s text offers a specific “portrait of absence”, which is able to intensify the subject despite its physical non-presence. In the first part, Weiner’s discursive strategy of feigning, revealing common features with postmodern metafiction and producing a rupture between what the text says and what it does, is explained. The second part analyzes an ironization of its affective and thematic center while bringing forth a new concept of “dia-narrative”. The third part explores the main figure of the empty chair in its intermedial relations with the portraits of Vincent van Gogh (1888) and the founding work of the conceptual art by Joseph Kosuth (1965).

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FACES WITHOUT INTERIORITY: MUSIC VIDEO’S REINVENTION OF THE PORTRAIT

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Jirsa T.

World Literature Studies

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2019

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vol. 11

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issue 4

55 – 68

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No matter how contemporary music videos differ across genres, aesthetic styles, and production background, they usually focus on the performer’s face. Exploring its opacity and agency, this essay argues that contemporary music video production replaces the face as an expression of the subject’s interiority and identity with a media-affective interface whose main function is to amplify the video’s work of audio-visual forms, performative mechanisms, and atmosphere. Through a close reading of the hip-hop video Chum by Earl Sweatshirt (dir. Hiro Murai, 2012), I demonstrate how it generates the face as an audio-visual screen that absorbs, intensifies, and gives rhythm to both the moving images and sounds. Such desubjectification opens a way to rethink portraiture within the music video genre as a media operation undermining the traditional notions of representation, interiority, and identity in favour of unfolding its technological and affective links between sounds, moving images, and lyrics.

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JAZYK TVAROVANÝ EXCESEM: AFEKT A JEHO PERFORMATIVNÍ MEDIALITA

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Jirsa T.

World Literature Studies

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2017

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vol. 9

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issue 3

14 – 28

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Over the past two decades, the “affective turn” has substantially influenced different humanities such as political theory, sociology, cognitive psychology and aesthetics. Literary studies, however, take a rather distant stance, overlooking affects as unanalysable emotional responses or mere reader’s affections. Drawing on recent works in media philosophy, film theory and visual anthropology, this paper addresses the questions of what exactly affects do with language and how they operate within a literary text. The first part briefly sketches the strong and weak points of the affective turn and the second part develops the most fruitful concepts relating affects to their forms and transmissions. In order to expand on Ernst van Alphen’s list of the affective operations, the third part examines a few corporeal figures in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, exploring their affective mediality triggered by various repetitive patterns. Finally, a hypothesis of the aesthetic nature of affects exceeding borders between different media and aesthetic forms is offered.

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Medialita nepřítomného subjektu. Estetika absence, dianarace a postmoderní impulzy „Prázdné židle“ Richarda Weinera

FACES WITHOUT INTERIORITY: MUSIC VIDEO’S REINVENTION OF THE PORTRAIT

JAZYK TVAROVANÝ EXCESEM: AFEKT A JEHO PERFORMATIVNÍ MEDIALITA