@article{ART002328909},
author={Park, Jecheol},
title={A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2018},
volume={50},
pages={1-29},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Jecheol
TI - A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2018
VL - 50
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 1
EP - 29
SN - 1598-0685
AB - In the contemporary American cinematic landscape, there is a distinctive tendency to depict the disturbing ways in which characters with brain damages perceive, remember, and think about the world. Despite its attempts to examine the socio-political implications of these characters' subjectivities, the previous scholarship on this trend of film was limited in being either too pessimistically deterministic or too euphorically optimistic. Critically reading neuroscientific discourses on the brain-damaged subject from the perspective of Giorgio Agamben's critique of biopolitics, this paper explores how the contemporary American cinema of the impaired brain attempts to mediate the neurologically inexplicable affects of those subjects who are in the neurological state of exception and to express their experiences of a becoming-nonhuman. By closely reading Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman in this regard, I show how the two films, by employing different sets of cinematic free indirect techniques, express the neurologically impaired subject’s affective experience of a becoming-nonhuman animal in different ways, and thereby to a more or less extent act as 'profaned' neuro-biopolitical apparatuses.
KW - neurological state of exception;cinema of the impaired brain;affective experience;free indirect discourse;becoming-nonhuman animal;Black Swan;Birdman
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
ER -
Park, Jecheol. (2018). A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman. Cross-Cultural Studies, 50, 1-29.
Park, Jecheol. 2018, "A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.50, pp.1-29. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol "A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman" Cross-Cultural Studies 50 pp.1-29 (2018) : 1.
Park, Jecheol. A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman. 2018; 50 1-29. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol. "A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman" Cross-Cultural Studies 50(2018) : 1-29.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol. A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman. Cross-Cultural Studies, 50, 1-29. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol. A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2018; 50 1-29. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol. A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman. 2018; 50 1-29. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
Park, Jecheol. "A Becoming-Nonhuman Animal in the Neurological State of Exception: Black Swan and Birdman" Cross-Cultural Studies 50(2018) : 1-29.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2018.50..1
