Cinema against doublethink: ethical encounters with the lost pasts of world history

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication Page......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
 Encountering lost pasts......Page 18
 The non-fascist life: Introduction to, or conclusion of?......Page 20
 Denying the denial of coevalness......Page 27
 Encountering other worlds......Page 32
 Cinematic ethics, ecology, colonial modernity......Page 39
 A world of cinemas and the Global South......Page 41
 A meeting of worlds......Page 42
 Notes......Page 46
Part I: Decolonising entrances to the past......Page 50
  History on film......Page 52
  World systems for a world of cinemas......Page 55
  Dussel, world systems, colonial modernity......Page 58
  Transmodern ethics......Page 61
  A Dusselian ethics for film-philosophy......Page 65
  Distant viewing history on film with Dussel......Page 67
  History on film as liberation philosophy......Page 69
  A cinematic ethics for the Anthropocene......Page 72
  Notes......Page 75
  The time-image and history I: The crystal history of world memory......Page 80
  The time-image and history II: Hesitation......Page 86
  The time-image and history III: Deleuze’s ethics......Page 89
  The time-image and history IV: Taxonomies......Page 93
  Notes......Page 102
Part II: Encounters with the past that is/is not preserved......Page 106
 Chapter 3: 4.54 (to 13.7) billion years: Planetary history, the natural contract, encountering earthly pasts......Page 108
  Time-images: Planetary pasts......Page 109
  Transnational history: Planetary – intertwined human/nonhuman......Page 112
  Encountering the Earth: The natural contract......Page 114
  Darkness: Seeking a (nonhuman) natural contract......Page 121
  Light: Revealing the archived world memory to the Universe......Page 131
  Notes......Page 134
 Chapter 4: 500 years: The North Atlantic trade circuit, the racial contract, encountering others’ pasts......Page 136
  Time-images: Others’ pasts......Page 137
  Transnational history: The North Atlantic trade circuit......Page 138
  Encountering the other: The racial contract......Page 140
  Opsign, off the colonial map......Page 145
  Face to face with Sebiopepe......Page 146
  Crystal, Sixteenth Century colonial/Twenty-First Century neoliberal......Page 154
  Face to face with an anonymous taxi driver......Page 157
  Notes......Page 163
Part III: Encounters with the present that passes......Page 166
 Chapter 5: 70 years: The Cold War, the social contract, encountering political pasts......Page 168
  Time-images: Political pasts......Page 169
  Transnational history: The Cold War......Page 171
  Encountering the (eradicated) political past: The (suspended) social contract......Page 173
  Crystalline carnival: Encountering the state of exception......Page 182
  Crystalline Montevideo: Encountering a glimpse of a lost political past......Page 187
  Notes......Page 193
 Chapter 6: 45 years: Neoliberal globalisation, the personal contract, encountering bodily pasts......Page 196
  Time-images: Bodily pasts......Page 197
  Transnational history: Neoliberalism......Page 199
  Encountering embodied pasts: The individual contract (in the control society)......Page 201
  The hospital is everywhere/everywhere is the hospital......Page 204
  Exhausted everyday bodies......Page 206
  Everywhere is prison or school/prison and school are everywhere......Page 212
  Community-oriented ceremonial body......Page 215
  Notes......Page 223
 A non-fascist life? Under democracy? In the Anthropocene?......Page 227
 Note......Page 232
Conclusion: One or many faces of the (lost) past?......Page 224
Select bibliography......Page 234
Index......Page 255