{"id":1245,"date":"2010-04-15T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/15\/theory-videos\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:20:32","slug":"theory-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/15\/theory-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"theory videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

One can find an increasing number of videotaped lectures online by today’s better known cultural theorists. But lectures are lectures, and the best audio-visual teaching tools remain full-fledged documentaries like Manufacturing Consent<\/a>, An Examined Life<\/a>, or Slavoj Zizek’s Pervert’s Guide to Cinema<\/a>, and these remain all too rare. Somewhere in between the two are small-budget, self-produced videos like Donna Haraway Reads the National Geographies of Primates<\/a>, which I still find to be one of the best introductions to Haraway’s thinking.<\/p>\n

But there’s a growing assortment of video mashups — mixtures of lectures or clips with excerpts from relevant found materials — uploaded to the internet by enthusiastic theoryheads, and some of these can be surprisingly useful. I learned about the mysterious Bruno Latour piece, A Film About Modernity<\/a>, from Himanshu Damle<\/a> (it’s mysterious to me, since I can’t find any more information about its production). Its use of video clips is pretty effective.<\/p>\n

Others, like Andy Robinson’s short video lecture on Lacan, Deleuze, and Reich<\/a> and Liquid Theory TV’s video illustrating, contextualizing, and debating GIlles Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control<\/a>, are a bit more professionally produced, but still only partially successful. The narration in both is a bit too incessant and monotonous (essentially a single voice reading an essay), but each of them covers a lot of material.<\/p>\n

It would be useful for someone to catalogue and review these kinds of videos and clips. Is anyone doing that already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One can find an increasing number of videotaped lectures online by today’s better known cultural theorists. But lectures are lectures, and the best audio-visual teaching tools remain full-fledged documentaries like Manufacturing Consent, An Examined Life, or Slavoj Zizek’s Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, and these remain all too rare. Somewhere in between the two are small-budget, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203,689701],"tags":[16788],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe","category-media_ecology","tag-latour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-k5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6722,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2013\/06\/19\/aar-panel-on-latours-gifford-lectures\/","url_meta":{"origin":1245,"position":0},"title":"AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour's Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. 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