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Revision as of 15:29, 21 April 2010


A Brief History of Magnetic Tape

Visuality and the Technical Exigencies of Video

Bootleggers vs. Pirates

Correcting the Market

  • bootleggers bring un-author-ized products to market where they would normally exist
  • timeshifting and betamax decision
  • the Law

The Camcorder, the VCR, and the Repositioning of the Viewing Subject

Surveillance, Sousveillence

  • rodney king
  • cctv aesthetics
  • foucault
  • flash-forward to "citizen journalism"

Transferal of Jouissance

  • the "pervert" who films
  • pamela & tommy lee

Palimpsest of Jouissance

  • the "pervert" who watches
  • the underground tape railroad

The Freedom of Timeshifting

  • the VCR will watch for you
  • nationalism & shared time

Amorous Media/Promiscuous Media

References

  • Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. The MIT Press. 1990.
  • Hilderbrand, Lucas. Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. Duke University Press. 2009.
  • Spielmann, Yvonne. Video: The Reflexive Medium. The MIT Press. 2008.
  • Zizek, Slavoj. "The Interpassive Subject" in Traveses. Centre Georges Pompidou. 1998. [1]