Jean Rouch: Les Maîtres fous
04. OTHER, A HESITANT SMILE
[ON OTHERING, THE RETURN GAZE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF OTHER]
This module questions modes of ‘othering’ and rethinks the geo-political economies of knowledge and power, lived and viewed from ‘elsewhere’. Revaluating the cultural and political understandings of the world today, it explores the historical formations and political configurations of multiple ways of storytelling and how divergent knowledge and practices make worlds and overcomes ‘othering’ caught between the parameters of power and inequality. How can we open up possibilities for a pluriverse, a cosmos composed through divergent practices of storytelling and the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time.
FURTHER READING & RESEARCH
Marisol de la Cadena & Mario Blaser, Eds.: A World of Many Worlds (2018)
Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2009); The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (2012)
Constance Penley, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel, and Janet Bergstrom, eds. Close Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction (1991)
David Abrams: The Spell of the Sensous (1996)
Glenn Aparicio Parry: Original Thinking: A Radical ReVisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (2015)
Saadawi, Ahmed, Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide (2014)
Chambers, Iain, Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities (2017)
Ursula Münster, Thom van Dooren, Sara Asu Schroer, & Hugo Reinert, eds. Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction; a collection of short essays in “Theorizing the Contemporary” (2021)
Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren & Matthew Chrulew, eds., Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations (2017)
Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other, How Anthropology Makes Its Object (1983/2014)
Eric Michaels, For a cultural future: Francis Jupurrurla makes TV at Yuendumu (1987)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics (2014)
Helen Macdonald, Falcon (2006)
Jean Rouch, First Film (1947-1991)
Mark Dion on the Economics of Smurf Society and Why is there only one Smurfette (Paper Tiger TV, 1991)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays itself, (2008)
Chris Marker, La Jetee (1962)
Alfred Hitchcock, VERTIGO (1958)
Rea Tajiri, History and Memory (2020)
FURTHER RESOURCES
12 monkeys movie theater scene of Hitchcock’s VERTIGO
Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons (1993)