Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 14:05:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Patrick B Bjork <bjork-AT-badlands.NoDak.edu>
Subject: Re: The Smooth, the Striated, and the Cinema




On Mon, 11 Jul 1994, Jonathan Beasley Murray wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jul 1994, Patrick B Bjork wrote:
>  
> > I'm  wondering if anyone on this list would care to discuss (define) 
> > Deleuze's/Guattari's conceptions of the smooth and the striated, and their 
> > potential/specific relationship and/or application to film. I'm a real 
> > novice in this area so I'd appreciate any and all responses.  
> 
> This may not seem very helpful, but I'd suggest you look at Deleuze's 
> _Cinema_ books and his discussion of "any-space-whatevers" for a 
> practical working out (it seems to me) of what a "smooth space" in film 
> might be.
> Jon

Thanks, Jon, but as in a classroom setting,  I still  need some dialogue, 
some elaboration: Isn't the "any-space-whatevers" essentially the entire 
filmic experience; that is, do not "shadows, whites and colours" 
contribute to all space and that therefore there really is no "space 
[that] is no longer a particular determined space. . . ." Or are these, 
too, determined spaces? Help, I'm lost in space!

--Patrick


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