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Claire Colebrook - Who Would You Kill to Save the World

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

CHAPTER

The Cinematic Ontology

The idea that time is the experience of who we are, like being someone who can say who I am, comes through technologies. The Egyptians were certainly trying to represent movement in their frescoes. There's something about looking at faces and movement and a coherent world of action that gives you a desire a teleological shape. And if you think about what Delos and Guwari were trying to do with cinema, if we take your phrase cinematic ontology, right? That's me putting words in your mouth but I think it is there.

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