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Capitolo | The Archive, Memory and Media in Crisis: Jon Rafman’s Poetic Disruptions of the Present

The Archive, Memory and Media in Crisis: Jon Rafman’s Poetic Disruptions of the Present

Abstract

The article considers three video works by artist Jon Rafman as a poetic negotiation of digitally mediated subjectivity, with the aim of showing how an artwork may engage with the present affective complexes which escape objectification and rationalization. Drawing from archival, memory and media studies the analysis will show how the works unsettle established dichotomies and open space for new temporalities and subjectivities. Traditional binaries come undone within the digital subject, whose liminal position points to cultural preconditions and limitations of objective truth and rationality – putting the works at the center of utopian thought.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 01 Ottobre 2024 | Pubblicato 11 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: en

Keywords Digital media • Hauntology • Utopian imagination • Cyberflâneur • Mediated memories

Copyright © 2024 Luja Šimunović. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-878-1/004


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