Sammanfattning
This practice-based PhD, Treating the Abstract of Capital Concretely:
Films Against Capitalism, looks at how film can oppose the prevailing ideas
of capitalist systems.
The research asks: What qualities do films have that can be used as
strategies against capitalism and what knowledge do these films produce? In
an understanding that capitalism projects concepts onto the world, and that
mainstream film can frame people’s lives through a reductive capitalist
understanding, the research suggests that more politically powerful moving
images need to be the focus to create societal change.
Treating the Abstract of Capitalism Concretely: Films Against Capitalism,
includes six aesthetic, political and conceptual video works, and an
accompanying written handbook, that together consider capital as the
relation between abstract laws of accumulation and concrete lived
situations.
Making moving image works against the capitalist system necessarily
involves knowledge about capitalism, however, the research charts how the
knowledge most central in filmmaking is often associative, affective and
combines knowledge with practice. A variety of methodological approaches
are pursued through practical and theoretical research about how films can
oppose capitalism. This investigation is explored materially, through video
projects that interrogate capitalist abstraction from inside social processes,
in realities that people live. The video works present a critique of racial and
patriarchal capitalism, while the written component presents a contextual
discussion about films against capitalism.
The PhD submission consists of six video projects: The Common Sense, The
Bay Area Protests, Parts-wholes 2, Crowds, Home Together, and Health as
Individual vs. Health as Social and a PDF handbook, Treating the Abstract
of Capital Concretely: Films Against Capitalism. The written text puts forth
theoretical and practical proposals for films against capitalism as well as a
3 script. Connections are here made between different understandings of
abstraction, while bringing in ideas from political theory, as well as
demonstrating allegory as a technique against capitalism in film.
The video works and handbook are accessed via: https://www.films-against-capitalism.com
Films Against Capitalism, looks at how film can oppose the prevailing ideas
of capitalist systems.
The research asks: What qualities do films have that can be used as
strategies against capitalism and what knowledge do these films produce? In
an understanding that capitalism projects concepts onto the world, and that
mainstream film can frame people’s lives through a reductive capitalist
understanding, the research suggests that more politically powerful moving
images need to be the focus to create societal change.
Treating the Abstract of Capitalism Concretely: Films Against Capitalism,
includes six aesthetic, political and conceptual video works, and an
accompanying written handbook, that together consider capital as the
relation between abstract laws of accumulation and concrete lived
situations.
Making moving image works against the capitalist system necessarily
involves knowledge about capitalism, however, the research charts how the
knowledge most central in filmmaking is often associative, affective and
combines knowledge with practice. A variety of methodological approaches
are pursued through practical and theoretical research about how films can
oppose capitalism. This investigation is explored materially, through video
projects that interrogate capitalist abstraction from inside social processes,
in realities that people live. The video works present a critique of racial and
patriarchal capitalism, while the written component presents a contextual
discussion about films against capitalism.
The PhD submission consists of six video projects: The Common Sense, The
Bay Area Protests, Parts-wholes 2, Crowds, Home Together, and Health as
Individual vs. Health as Social and a PDF handbook, Treating the Abstract
of Capital Concretely: Films Against Capitalism. The written text puts forth
theoretical and practical proposals for films against capitalism as well as a
3 script. Connections are here made between different understandings of
abstraction, while bringing in ideas from political theory, as well as
demonstrating allegory as a technique against capitalism in film.
The video works and handbook are accessed via: https://www.films-against-capitalism.com
| Originalspråk | engelska |
|---|---|
| ISBN (tryckt) | 978-91-89490- 05-5 |
| ISBN (elektroniskt) | 978-91-89490- 05-5 |
| Status | Published - 2022 okt. 7 |
| Externt publicerad | Ja |
Bibliografisk information
Defence detailsDate: 2022-11-09
Time: 14:00
Place: Kungl. Konsthögskolan / Royal Institute of Art
External reviewer(s)
Name: Jonsson, Stefan
Title: Professor Dr
Affiliation: Linköping University
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