Deleuzian spectatorship

Streamer-Interface-Viewer Entanglement

“…To further explain why White applies the term "spectators" to Internet users, it is necessary to understand cinematic spectatorship, which addresses a particular relationship between subjectivity and fi lm-viewing. Rushton (2009) writes about the physical participation of the spectators' bodies and senses in the fi lm-viewing process. He terms this "Deleuzian spectatorship", characterised by "non-refl exive, passive, uncritical responsiveness" in the mode of immersion, where "the fi lm comes out to the spectator so as to surround and envelop her/him" (Rushton, 2009, p. 49).…”

Sensing

“…To explore this capacity of ethnographic film to open thought to the preindividual intensities and nonhuman durations composing research sites, the methodological workshop involved encounters with clips from the work of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), followed by reflective discussion that drew on texts about posthuman cinema and affective methods that students read in advance (see Colebrook, ; Lorimer, ; Rushton, ). Based at Harvard University, the SEL was set up in 2007 to support experimental approaches to ethnographic filmmaking that are concerned, as the lab's director Lucien Castaing‐Taylor puts it, “not to analyse, but to actively produce aesthetic experience … and to transcend what is often considered the particular province of the human and delve into nature” (Dowell, : n.p.).…”