This approach queries any conception of life and death as a-historical moments of the human condition, and connects them to modern and contemporary modes of production - economical and social - and as such raises the crucial issues of representation and history. Which and whose histories can or cannot be narrated? From what perspective? How is history itself shaped by narration?
Film and Biopolitics
The Ghostly Social Aspects of Cinema
The conference will approach post-classical and post-avant-garde film work from a biopolitical viewpoint.