Kinsey, Cadence Elizabeth Craddock orcid.org/0000-0001-9025-524X (2019) Blind Windows. History of the human sciences. pp. 154-182. ISSN 0952-6951
Abstract
This article analyses Camille Henrot's 2013 film, Grosse Fatigue, in relation to the histories of hypermedia and modes of interaction with the world wide web. It considers the development of non-hierarchical systems for the organisation of information, and uses Grosse Fatigue to draw comparisons between the Web, the natural history museum and the archive. At stake in focusing on the way in which information is organised through hypermedia is the question of subjectivity, and this article argues that such systems are made ‘user-friendly’ by appearing to accommodate intuitive processes of information retrieval, reflecting the subject back to itself as autonomous. This produces an ideology of individualism which belies the forms of heteronomy that in fact shape and structure access to information online in significant ways. At the heart of this argument is an attention to the visual, and the significance of art as an immanent mode of analysis. Through the themes of transparency and opacity, and order and chaos, the article thus proposes a defining dynamic between autonomy and automation as a model for understanding the contemporary subject.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Internet,art,hypermedia,subjectivity,visuality |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History of Art (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2019 16:00 |
Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2024 00:34 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118818989 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0952695118818989 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:140980 |
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