Part 1: Collective Readings

Geoghegan, Bernard Dionysius. 2013. “After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory.” Theory, Culture, and Society 30.6: 66–82.

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey. 2014. “The Kultur of cultural techniques: Conceptual inertia and the parasitic materialities of ontologization.” Cultural Politics 10.3: 376–388.

Chow, Rey. 1995. “Film as Ethnography; or, translation between cultures in the postcolonial world,” in R. Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, sexuality, ethnography, and contemporary Chinese cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 173–202.

Latour, Bruno. 2005. ‘Trains of Thought: The fifth Dimension of Time and its Fabrication,” in A. N. Perret-Clermont (ed.), Thinking Time: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Time, Göttingen: Hogrefe and Huber, 173–87.

Somaini, Antonio. 2016. “Walter Benjamin’s media theory: the Medium and the Apparat.” Grey Room 62: 6–41.

Part 2: Groups

Cinema/Body

Parker, Martin & Robert Cooper. 1998. “Cyborganization: Cinema as Nervous System,” in J. Hassard & R. Holliday (eds.). Organization/ representation: work and organizations in popular culture, London: Sage, 201–228.

Rutherford, Anne. 2011. “Cinema and Embodied Affect,” in A. Rutherford. What Makes a Film Tick? Cinematic Affect, Materiality and Mimetic Innervation. Bern: Peter Lang, 145 –164.

Kickasola, Joseph G. 2015. “It is a Restless Moment: Wong Kar-wai and the Phenomenology of Flow,” in M. P. Nochimson (ed.). A Companion to Wong Kar-wai. Chichester–Oxford: John Wiley, 2016, 47–79.

Game, Jérôme. 2001. “Cinematic Bodies. The Blind Spot in Contemporary French Theory on Corporeal Cinema.” Studies in French Cinema 1.1: 47–53.

Deleuze., Gilles. 1988. “On the Difference Between the Ethics and a Morality,” in G. Deleuze. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 17–29.

Grønstad, Asbjørn. 2016. “Six Theses on the Ethical Imagination,” in A. Grønstad. Film and the Ethical Imagination. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 85–99.

Sierek, Karel. 2013. “Image-Animism: On the History of the Theory of a Moving Term.” Images Re-vues, Hors-série 4.

Mauss, Marcel. 1973. “Techniques of the Body.” Economy and Society 2: 70–88.

Chamarette, Jenny. 2017. “Embodying Spectatorship: From phenomenology to sensation,” in K. L. Hole et al. (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender. New York: Routledge, 311–321.

Colman, Felicity. 2017. “Deleuzian Spectatorship,” in K. L. Hole et al. (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender. New York: Routledge, 322–331.

China/Body

Bao, Weihong. 2010. “The Politics of Remediation: Mise-en-scène and the Subjunctive Body in Chinese Opera Film.” Opera Quarterly 26.2: 256–290.

Liao, Sebastian Hsien-Hao. 2014. “Becoming Butterfly: Power of the False, Crystal Image and Taoist Onto-Aesthetics,” in R. Bogue, H. Chiu & Y.-L. Lee (eds.), Deleuze and Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1–28.

Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2007. “What Daoist Body?,” in F.C. Reiter (ed.), Purposes, means and convictions in Daoism: A Berlin symposium. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 131–150.

Chen, Jack W. 2011. “Social Networks, Court Factions, Ghosts, and Killer Snakes: Reading Anyi Ward.” " T'ang Studies 29: 45–61.

Jullien, François. 2004. “Action or Transformation,” in F. Jullien, A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 46–60.

Jullien, François. 2009. “Image-Phenomenon: Painting Transformation and Life,” in F. Jullien, The Great Image Has No Form, On the Nonobject through Painting. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 227–240.

Wong, Kin-yuen. 2005. “Technoscience Culture, Embodiment and Wuda pian,” in M. Morris, S. L. Li, S.C. Ching-kiu, Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 269–286.

Hui, Yuk. 2016. “Qi and Dao in Daoism: Pao Ding's Knife,” in Y. Hui, The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics. Falmouth: Urbanomic,