On Presence, Absence and Classical Hollywood Distortion
By Bo Kenneth
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First issued in 2003, as a critical exploration of classical cinematic storytelling, involving an integrated interplay of visual, verbal and conceptual Regeneration.
Bo Kenneth
Boken bygger på nærmere 20 års erfaring. Som næringsdrivende. I inn- og utland. Samt over 20 års uavhengige studier. Av et omfattende tema. Og et omfattende problem: Vi vil ikke vite.
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On Presence, Absence and Classical Hollywood Distortion - Bo Kenneth
Bo Kenneth
bokenneth@outlook.de
(2003) 2019
Innehållsförteckning
The Presence of llusions
The Illusion of Presence
Presence, Absence and Angst
Aspects of Being
Being as Presence
Discursive Distortion
Primitive Figuration
References
The Presence of Illusions
It is impossible for the human intellect to grasp the idea of absolute continuity of motion. Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which gives rise to a large proportion of human error.
Leo Tolstoy; War and Peace¹
Human interaction is typically depicted in stories.
Historical annals are conspicuously stereotypical, offering organized accounts of ambiguous conflicts, accentuating the roles played by heroic heroes and vicious villains.
Or vice versa.
Out of the confusion of human coexistence historical narratives identify a patterned if paradoxical, allegedly factual yet largely fictional and illusory human universe.
A human reality.
Histories of human being are remarkably irrational.
Human interaction is portrayed as an endless string of battles, in which the heroes are the villains who seem to win the wars. Where wars are fought to present and preserve heroes. And to topple villains no longer seen as heroes.
Or vice versa.
Human coexistence is seen as based on competition. On a common struggle for prosperity and presence. Where presence is inseparably linked to prosperity. And prosperity depends on possessing symbols and tokens of social presence.
Human excellence is seen as present in palatial splendour and glorious cathedrals. Built on wars and common subservience. As massive manifestations of princely power and pious sovereignty. As monuments of ceaseless struggles and insatiable greed.
Coupled with a certain sense of sumptuous glory.
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Faced with the flow of life man creates illusions.
And deities. Shaped in his image.
Aware of his transient existence, within a transient reality never completely real, man maintains a fictitious world.
In which women are offered a central if subordinate role.
Through the centuries human beings have ceaselessly reiterated stories.
In poems and sagas, novels and dramas.
Broadly sharing a narrative structure.
Through the telling of largely similar stories an integrated system of figurative configurations is repeatedly redefined.
Included in every story a narrative structure conditions the telling. While every story embodies a manifestation of a figurative world.
All stories include and redefine a recurrent scope of principles and configurations, shaped and sustained by the telling, which decisively condition the telling and constrain the scope of the story.
Infinitely variable yet structurally stable, all stories are preserved through a patterned process underpinned by a common lack of critical reflection.
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The basic principles defining and preserving a fictitious human universe are consistently, conveniently and conspicuously present in stories.
In a continuous practice of narrative regeneration.
By way of repeatedly portraying a process of self-preservation, a figurative tradition preserves itself. And continually redefining the configurations shaping the narrative conflict the narrative discourse effectively sustains a fictitious realm.
Stories underpin an endless discursive practice through which heroes and villains continually confront themselves and each other.
Offering peace through war, and freedom through subservience, a narrative discourse proposes to structure the chaos of life. And to maintain a fictitious universe.
Far from lifting the veil or breaking the spell the telling of stories sustains a narrative realm, and supports a collective illusion.
A stable network of narrative configurations dependably stimulates the telling of different yet always similar stories. In which the roles played by men and women, heroes and villains, are persistently confirmed.
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Stories are not inherently trivial.
A persistent practice of storytelling preserves a pervasive and persuasive existential strategy, in more than one respect.
Told to entertain and amuse, to explore the processes of being, stories also offer to maintain the presence of the storyteller.
Stories maintain a promise of presence.
Through a partly unconscious process of cognitive diversion.
Which is partly why stories are still being ceaselessly told.
To distinguish us from other species??
With the presence of the printing press the process of telling stories was vastly expanded.
Through commercialized film and television, a technologically assisted industrial production, of stereotypical stories, has expanded into a globalized form of massive narrative diversion and distortion.
A development significantly including a US-American component.
Thus, a kind of commercially enhanced diversion is sustained as a central discursive practice, actively promoted by a predominant proponent of a so-called Western culture.
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A human universe is deeply conditioned by stories.
And by an endless line of heroes, assumed to command the course of a common struggle. To preserve a promise of presence and power, through solving conflicts broadly caused by the struggle.
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