DIGITAL LANGUAGE OUTSIDE THE SCREEN: THE POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF CODE EXECUTIONS IN DEMEROL BY MARIO BELLATIN AND LOOPS BY MERCE CUNNINGHAM
No. 20 (2019-07-01)Author(s)
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Renee Carmichael
Abstract
This text explores how digital language—specifically the execution of code—used beyond the digital can illustrate the political potential of literature. It shows how reading, like the dance of a choreography, is the execution of an aesthetic process that creates events of fragmented bodies that are connected through communities of dissent. This article executes Rancière’s work alongside Demerol by Mario Bellatin and the dance Loops by Merce Cunningham. The juxtaposition of the two works read through digital language shows how the poetics of the digital as a political force creates sensible events found between the digital and the non-digital.
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