Chronos sickness: digital reality in Duncan Jones’s Source Code

Abstract

he advent of digital technologies unquestionably afected cinema. he indexical relation and realistic efect with the photographed world much praised by André Bazin (2005) and Roland Barthes (1986) is just one of the afected aspects. his article discusses cinema in light of the new digital possibilities, relecting on Steven Shaviro's consideration of "how a nonindexical realism might be possible" (Postcinematic 63) and how in fact a new kind of reality, a digital one, might emerge in the science iction ilm Source Code (2013) by Duncan Jones.