Port of call: The eyeline of the logistical image

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Authors
Publication date 2023
Journal NECSUS
Volume | Issue number 12 | 1
Pages (from-to) 35-57
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract
From the surface of the sea to a sea of data as a canvas of affective inscription, the port emerges as a calling card, constituted by the aggregate image of logistical media and its ‘looks’ and ‘likes’. The surface of software infrastructure encompasses and extends the operation of the port. Cross-weaving documentary (Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s The Forgotten Space [2010]), experimental and independent film (Jean Luc Godard’s Socialisme [2010], Philip Scheffner’s Havarie [2010]), reality television (Below Deck: Mediterranean, 2016-present), and Instagram, the port emerges as the para-site par excellence of floating capital, consumption, and waste.
Document type Article
Note In special issue: #Ports
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19752
Published at https://necsus-ejms.org/port-of-call-the-eyeline-of-the-logistical-image/
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