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(2018) Film in the anthropocene, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Janus East and West
multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event
Daniel White
pp. 181-209
This chapter argues that Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, including its concepts of spatiality, temporality, and phenomenal form, intersects with digital media and late modern industrial technologies, especially high-speed rail, to produce a Janus-faced vision of Japan, old and new. The sensibility evoked by Trinh's digital film event is in the spirit of what F.C.S Northrop called "the meeting of East and West" (1946). Her work shapes an autopoietic perspective consonant with Varela's second-generation cybernetics, Dōgen's Zen, and Bashō's haibun (prose with poetry) to recreate a sense of itinerancy through the multicultural landscape of the Anthropocene.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_6
Full citation:
White, D. (2018). Janus East and West: multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event, in Film in the anthropocene, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-209.
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