The Intertext: Death, Time and Memory: A Critical Homage to Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida
PART 1 EIDOS
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Introduction
A. THE FIRST FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: DEATH
Death of the Mother
Photographers Are Agents of Death
Memento Mori
Vanitas
Banal Meditations On Death
Considering Barthes, Death and the Form of Photography
Heidegger and Death
What Does It Mean To Be An Authentic Human Being?
The First Transformative Shift- Anxiety
The Second Transformative Shift-the Certainty of Death
Third Transformative Shift-The Call of Conscience
Anticipating Death-Being-Towards-Death
Barthes, Death and Heidegger
Buddhism and Death
Rilke and the Great Sadness
Was Barthes Transformed by the Death of His Mother?
The Dead Boats
B. THE SECOND FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: TIME
That Has Been and The States of Time
Banality, Singularity, and the Unanswered Question
Breaking Free From That Has Been; My Singularity
Two Photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge; Integritas
The Arrow of Time
Reasons for the Arrow of Time
Time Is Neither a River Nor a Metaphor
Stone Faced Buddha, Incense, Flowers and Candles; Timeless Images
When Is the Photograph for Aristotle?
When is the Photograph For Bergson?
When Is the Photograph for Einstein?
When Is the Photograph According to Science? Intervals of Planck Time; Duration; Why We Can Never Photograph the Present
Circuits-Optical and Virtual Images; Photographs and Memory
The Photograph As a Dynamic, Generative System; Intersum
General Thoughts on Temporal Density
Long Duration Images
Serial Images
Araki’s Date Stamps and Future Images
Photographs of Zircon Crystals-The Oldest Thing on Earth
Timeless Images-Seascapes
Krishnamurti on Thought and Time
When Is Photography? New Directions
C. THE THIRD FORM OF PHOTOGRAPHY: MEMORY
What Is Memory?
Memory According to Henri Bergson
Present Moment Awareness Is Beyond Memory
Why Do I Retrieve My Memories?
Killing the Present by Taking the Photograph; The Metaphor of Impermanence
Memory In Camera Lucida
Sources of memory triggers: cakes, boots, photographs, dreams and reveries
My Objects, My Memories, My Circuits
Writings as catalyst for memories; the Khumbu Valley
I Can’t Rely On My Memories: Bladerunner
Dreams, memories and Photographs
Barthes Desire to Understand Photography; My Desire to Take Photographs
Desire For The Dead Boats In the Amsterdam Canals
Desire For the Reflections in the Shop Windows On Utrechtsestrasse
Desire for Encinitas and Valerie
La Jetee: Death, Time and Memory
Krishnamurti Flight of the Eagle, Freedom From the Past and Memory
What Is Remembered? Memories Make Photographs and Photographs Make Memories
Photography is Life and Death, Time and Memory; Ode to Palinode
PART II CAMERA OBSCURA
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Introduction: Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida and the Sirens
A. THE FOUR QUALITIES
Introduction-Phenomenology-Eidetic or Existential?
Studium and Punctum-Introduction
The Chord of Photography
Studium
Punctum-General
Punctum As the Boats
Punctum as Death and Time
Punctum As Memory
Admodum: The Quality of Toxicity and Assault
Silentium- The Quality of Timeless and Still Images
The Surprise: The Essential Gesture
What Is Photography? Seen or Unseen in Amsterdam
Naked Desire: Eros, Pornography and Photography
B. TRUTH AND LIES
Introduction
The Homeless Camp Beneath the Manhattan Bridge
Robert Capa
Gregory Crewdson
Christian Boltanski
Araki
Wolfgang Tillmans
Thoughts on Digital Images From Delhi, India
Authentication of Photographs
The Silentium Does Not Lie
The Death of the Photographer
C. BARTHES, JOYCE, THE MOTHER AND THE SEA
The Mother and the Sea; The Transformation of the Son Into the Mother: Barthes’ Family History
Boats: Barthes by Barthes
Stephen Dedalus and the Mother
The Three Masted Ship
Sisyphus, Barthes and the Mother
Daedalus, Ariadne, the Labyrinth and the Minotaur
I Become the Boats and the Water
I Become the Boat and the 10,000 Things
I Become Moonlight Beach and the 10,000 Things
I Become Utrechtsestrasse and The 10,000 Things
Part III SATORI
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A. Zen and Photography
Introduction To Zen
The Three Marks of Existence
Barthes and Zen
The Eidos of Photography: Emptiness
Haiku and Photography
Enso and Photography
Tathata- The Suchness of the Photograph
Conscious Photography
B. THE SUFFERING OF ROLAND BARTHES
The Dance of Impermanence
Conscious Photography
Barthes, Buddhism and Suffering: Impermanence
Marpa, Barthes and Acceptance of Loss
Cameral Lucida, Barthes and Duality
Brahman and Barthes: Piercing the Veil of Maya and Release From Suffering
The Polaroid and The Winter Garden Photograph: Maya, Duality and Non-Duality
C. THE NEUTRAL
Binaries, Boundaries and Vibratory Existence
The Neutral
Tao and The Neutral
Wu-Wei and The Neutral
Satori and The Neutral
Barthes, The Bardo and The Neutral
The Starn Twins, Ganjin and The Neutral
An Ending: The False Choice of Camera Lucida; The Unanswered Question; Duality to Non-duality