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Leviathan : An Ethnographic Dream
Author(s) -
Stevenson Lisa,
Kohn Eduardo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12062
Subject(s) - leviathan (cipher) , poetics , narrative , gesture , dream , ethnography , perspective (graphical) , aesthetics , sociology , history , art , philosophy , literature , psychology , anthropology , visual arts , computer science , linguistics , computer security , poetry , neuroscience
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called A nthropocene. 

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