Three Kubrickian Machinic Characters and their Technical Malfunctions

Three Kubrickian Machinic Characters and their Technical Malfunctions

Taking as its main reference Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), this article suggests a technical and philosophical interpretation of three types of machinic malfunction that operate inside the mechanic of three Kubrickian characters: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sell...

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Main Author: Antoine Prévost-Balga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2017-12-01
Series:Cinergie
Online Access:https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7337
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spelling doaj-80f0f1fc30ba41ddbdb6a401a8f9dcad2020-11-25T00:37:39ZengUniversity of BolognaCinergie2280-94812017-12-0161291910.6092/issn.2280-9481/73376559Three Kubrickian Machinic Characters and their Technical MalfunctionsAntoine Prévost-Balga0Goethe UniversitätTaking as its main reference Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), this article suggests a technical and philosophical interpretation of three types of machinic malfunction that operate inside the mechanic of three Kubrickian characters: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) from the eponymous Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Alex (Malcolm McDowell) from A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Private Pyle (Vincent D’Onofrio) in Full Metal Jacket (1987). The goal is to provide renewed interpretative dimensions of symptomatic elements of these Kubrickian characters: technical malfunction, incompleteness, alienation.https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/7337
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description Taking as its main reference Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958), this article suggests a technical and philosophical interpretation of three types of machinic malfunction that operate inside the mechanic of three Kubrickian characters: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) from the eponymous Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Alex (Malcolm McDowell) from A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Private Pyle (Vincent D’Onofrio) in Full Metal Jacket (1987). The goal is to provide renewed interpretative dimensions of symptomatic elements of these Kubrickian characters: technical malfunction, incompleteness, alienation.
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