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Reconciling film studies and geography: Adolfo Bioy Casares's La invencion de Morel.
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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
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March 1, 2008
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When seen through Bergson's philosophy, the cinematic machine at the heart of La invencion de Morel bolsters recent attempts to reconcile the disciplines of film studies and cultural geography. Bioy Casares's novel serves as a concrete, if fantastic, introduction to powerful methodological shifts that have brought film-space and city-space together.
If [...] matter is the inverse of consciousness, if consciousness is
action unceasingly creating and enriching itself, whilst matter is
action continually unmaking itself or using itself up, then neither
matter nor consciousness can be explained apart from one another.
--Henri Bergson, "Life and Consciousness"
[I]mmortality cannot ...
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