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- A cultura do não fazer nadaPublication . Magno, Sara
- Editorial: images in movementPublication . Cordas, Ekaterina; Magno, SaraHow do we read images, and is “reading” the right word to describe the relation that we, as scholars, establish with our objects of analysis? What are the methods that can be applied to the study of moving images? This number of Diffractions has a story that began with these questions. This editorial presents contextualisation of the current issue of Diffractions and presents a theoretical entry into the articles and essays gathered in the publication.
- Entrevista com a Professora Margarida MedeirosPublication . Magno, Sara; Pinto, Sophie
- Interview with Margarida MedeirosPublication . Magno, Sara; Pinto, Sophie; Machado, Ana Flora; Herold, Vera
- Interview with Professor Rita FelskiPublication . Magno, Sara
- Narrative and database in “All that is Solid”, a desktop documentaryPublication . Magno, SaraThis paper proposes to analyze “All that is Solid” by artist and filmmaker Louis Henderson, a documentary film that uses the desktop of the computer as a background for a new kind of narrative structure to unfold. This film will be looked at mainly through Lev Manovich´s notion of the “database as a symbolic form” (MANOVICH, 1999) which the author attributes to the “age of the computer” when the database becomes the key form of cultural expression after the novel and cinema. It conducts a close reading of the film while pointing out several moments when database as a cultural expression surfaces, becomes dominant, and competes with conventional narrative forms of filmmaking. Through the basic system of organizing folders on his computer’s desktop Henderson reflexively unravels a complex story: as technological progress advances in the West, piles of obsolete computers are thrown away, sent to the coast of West Africa, and end up being recycled in waste grounds such as Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana. The film confronts us with a strange system of recycling, a kind of reverse, neo-colonial mining, where groups of Ghanaians search for residues of mineral resources in the computer waste materials sent from Europe. It tells us of the correlation between technology and race, and of the immateriality of the ‘Cloud’ in contrast to the heavy materiality of e-waste zones.
- Out of suspicionPublication . Magno, Sara; Herold, Vera
- A recuperação da mecânica viva da paisagemPublication . Magno, Sara
- Rehabilitating empathy as a technology of the otherPublication . Magno, Sara