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#2: Identity
Focus Questions (what you should be able to answer by the end) - What does linearity mean in relation to identity? - What is a palimpsest? - Why is the subject always already someone else?
Linearity
- Draw an arrow across a page
Non-linearity
Write five events that have happened in your life, two
things that you desire and two things youre obliged to do randomly across a section of your page.
Circle each and make sure the circles dont touch each
other.
This is much closer to Nietzsches idea of the identity,
Nietzsche
1. Why are knowledge and truth always changing?
grammatical fiction?
3. Why might Nietzsche see a fixed/objective view, like
everything. - Nietzsche
It is certain that neither men nor women are clearly defined
personalities but rather vibrations, flows, schizzes and knots. - Gilles Deleuze
On the back: in what ways are these two quotes suggesting the
same thing?
Palimpsest
Need a pencil and an eraser:
of Bob Dylan
- Press quite firmly with your
pencil, your want the sketch to be dark - Now erase and repeat
Palimpsest
Need a pencil and an eraser:
of Bob Dylan
- Press quite firmly with your
pencil, your want the sketch to be dark - Now erase and repeat
Palimpsest
Definition:
1. A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing. 2. traces of its reused form. Something earlier or altered but still bearing visible
Always Already...
The idea of the palimpsest is useful to us because it
becomes a visual representation of how the film sees identity. The shadows or erasures of other Dylans are always there within the Dylan that is being presented on screen.This is presented to us as a consequence of both casting, editing, voice-over, and a range of other decisions, but the overall impact is that we become aware that Dylan is always already someone else. Consider one of the closing montages of the film...