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Jointly explores Bill Viola's video art and Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation through their shared understanding of the interpenetration of nature and technology.
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Elena del Río is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her essays on the intersections between cinema and philosophies of the body in the areas of technology, performance, and affect have been featured in journals such as
Alphaville,
Angelaki,
Camera Obscura,
Canadian Journal of Film Studies,
Deleuze Studies, Discourse,
Film-Philosophy, Image and Narrative, Necsus, The New Review of Film and Television Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Science Fiction Studies,
Studies in French Cinema, and
SubStance. She has also contributed to numerous edited volumes on the films of Atom Egoyan, Michael Haneke, and Rainer Fassbinder, and on topics such as Asian exploitation film, cinema and cruelty, the philosophy of film and new media, film noir, film phenomenologies, and Deleuze and cinema. She is the author of
The Grace of Destruction: A Vital Ethology of Extreme Cinemas (Bloomsbury, 2016) and
Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
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Jointly explores Bill Viola's video art and Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation through their shared understanding of the interpenetration of nature and technology.