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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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