Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.

Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.

In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, King shows that using its original meaning which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming provides the means to reveal the "analog" elements in contemporary digital art. Through a queer reading of the life and work of mathematician Alan...

In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, King shows that using its original meaning which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming provides the means to reveal the "analog" elements in contemporary digital art. Through a queer reading of the life and work of mathematician Alan...