Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime

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González Torrents, Alba
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2015
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The purpose of this paper is to explore, through several concepts extracted from the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between narrative and extra-narrative elements in anime such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Serial Experiments Lain and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In these works we are presented not only with complex narratives, but also elements that seem to escape narrative logic (for example, the unexplained appearance of images, colors and sounds). Both the constantly "floating" extra-narrative aspects and specific points of rupture in the narrative have to be duly accounted for. I will relate the analysis of these anime to two forms of temporality, i.e. the product-time and process-time (closer to Bergson´s durée). The former shall be applied to the structure of the narrative parts, and the later to the role of the extra-narrative elements. I will specifically focus on the difference between the individual / environment pair, which taken as a whole constitutes the ending point of the Simondonian ontogenesis, and that which exceeds individuation: "apeiron", the undetermined understood as a place of potentiality. Ultimately the paper aims at demonstrating how anime functions as what I call a "thinking device"
Fil: González Torrents, Alba. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina
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Temporality
Deleuze
Simondon
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title Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
spellingShingle Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
González Torrents, Alba
Anime
Temporality
Deleuze
Simondon
title_short Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
title_full Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
title_fullStr Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
title_full_unstemmed Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
title_sort Animated potentiality: Temporality and the limits of narrativity in anime
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González Torrents, Alba
author González Torrents, Alba
author_facet González Torrents, Alba
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Anime
Temporality
Deleuze
Simondon
topic Anime
Temporality
Deleuze
Simondon
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The purpose of this paper is to explore, through several concepts extracted from the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, the relationship between narrative and extra-narrative elements in anime such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Serial Experiments Lain and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In these works we are presented not only with complex narratives, but also elements that seem to escape narrative logic (for example, the unexplained appearance of images, colors and sounds). Both the constantly "floating" extra-narrative aspects and specific points of rupture in the narrative have to be duly accounted for. I will relate the analysis of these anime to two forms of temporality, i.e. the product-time and process-time (closer to Bergson´s durée). The former shall be applied to the structure of the narrative parts, and the later to the role of the extra-narrative elements. I will specifically focus on the difference between the individual / environment pair, which taken as a whole constitutes the ending point of the Simondonian ontogenesis, and that which exceeds individuation: "apeiron", the undetermined understood as a place of potentiality. Ultimately the paper aims at demonstrating how anime functions as what I call a "thinking device"
Fil: González Torrents, Alba. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad; Argentina
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