Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's L'Emploi du temps is analysed as a cartographic rendering of post-Fordist labour. The film creates a pervasive ambiance of liminality and dreamlike disconnection—‘flottement’—around the central character of Vincent in order to convey the affective landscape of post-Fordist immaterial labour (in this case business consultancy). Approaching L'Emploi du temps as a diagram—in Deleuzian terms—of discursive and non-discursive components helps to explain the ways in which the film goes beyond psychoanalytic drama in order to convey a more general sense of a social reality that is frequently problematic and overwhelming for Vincent. Recent work on hy...
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This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of p...
In several of Michel Houellebecq’s, Marie NDiaye’s, and Michael Haneke’s works there are moments in ...
French (and Franco-Belgian) cinema has witnessed a return to the real since the middle of the 1990s ...
Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's work on Michel Foucault, control societies and cinema, Laurent Cantet's ...
As James Rosenau has written, localization and globalization came crashing together at the turn of t...
This paper demonstrates the possibility of the utopian use of late capitalist non-places through Lau...
In an interview, filmmaker Christian Petzold highlights that post-Fordism not only chan...
The Cité des 4000 is in La Courneuve, a town not far from Paris. The complex was designed to respon...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2009 filmMicmacs à tire-larigot, a scathing critique of the global...
Arpenter les lieux de la mémoire ouvrière et paysanne, explorer les nouveaux terrains de l’emploi te...
International audienceDe nombreux travaux d’inspiration sociologique ont été menés ces quinze derniè...
Gilles Deleuze remarks that Jean Renoir’s entire œuvre displays the most fundamental operation of ti...
Cette thèse entend actualiser le diagnostic de Gilles Deleuze sur le « peuple qui manque » en inspec...
Quatre romans français, Daewoo de François Bon, La Question humaine de François Emmanuel, Les Dernie...
Egouts-Dégouts : travailler à l'abri des regards donne la parole aux égoutiers de Genève. En captura...
This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of p...
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