Tracking Theory
The Synthetic Philosophy of The Glance
By Eric S. Faden
Editors' Introduction
Eric Faden's video essay, Tracking Theory takes a form that is all too rare in academia. At once personal and historical; authentic and constructed, Faden's work shows the power of moving images and sounds to present an argument that is richly illustrated and imaginative while densely researched and precisely articulated. Drawing inspiration from such venerable texts as Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey, Faden leads us through a visual history that maps the parallel evolution of train travel and early cinema and the radical disruption of traditional relations between the body, space and time that these two technologies represent. The essayistic form of the piece allows Faden to indulge his own personal obsessions, including a fascination with three films in which trains figure prominently: Wong Kar Wai's 2046, Lars Von Trier's Europa, and Gustavo Mosquera's Moebius, while simultaneously relecting on the broader implications of the evolving relation between perception and memory.
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