Futures of the Flesh: An Experiment in Film Writing (Superimpositions)

Exploring alternative possibilities of viewpoint through cinematic experimentation In this boldly multidimensional work, Domietta Torlasco alternates between theoretical writings, film essays, and fragmented excerpts from an original screenplay to construct a temporal as well as spatial architecture for her critical intervention.Futures of the Flesh posits that cinematic experimentation holds the strongest potential to reimagine life-its forms, rhythms, and affects-beyond the division between subject and object, human and animal, animate and inanimate.Such potential cannot be clearly located in either space or time but, on the contrary, requires that we think according to momentum, diffraction, and difference. As a novel notion and the formative medium of both subject and object, the flesh affirms the openness and indefinite generativity of being, allowing for the appearance of new perceptual relations and forms of kinship.Torlasco stages a dialogue between thinkers including Hortense