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Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Intense Play with Light and Sound

Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology
Title
Intense Play with Light and Sound
Subtitle
Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology
Author(s)
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
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Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
6 May 2025
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Language
en-GB
page start
81
page end
114
Source
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 81–114

Publication scheduled for 6 May 2025

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Cite as: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘Intense Play with Light and Sound: Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology’, in Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 81-114 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32_3>