Towards a Noncompliant Pedagogy of the Image: Reading Negentropic Bifurcatory Potentials in Video Images

What is it about?

We shall explore the characteristics of the noncompliant pedagogy of the image based on our short video entitled Autopoietic Veering: Schizo Socius of Tokyo and Vancouver (2021). The video is not the kind of trendy modelized video abstract or kinetic presentation eagerly promoted by international publishers; it is a cross-cultural collaborative work intended to generate affirmative temporal ruptures of entropic habitual modes of seeing, memorizing, and thinking of human and nonhuman life in the cities of Tokyo (Japan) and Vancouver (Canada). We elucidate Stiegler’s (2015b) concept of a “global mnemotechnical system” that stores and produces human memories in vast digital archives and databases (tertiary retentions) through “mnemonic control” (Parisi & Goodman, 2011). We repurpose video images to interrupt and recontrol human perception and memories as “living engines” (Lazzarato, 2006). We give prominence to the philosophical work of Deleuze, Heidegger, and Virilio to rethink and revive the creative act of “critique” (Foucault, 1997) through “metamodelization” (Guattari, 1995; Manning, 2020); therefore, we plug these apparently incommensurable modes of thinking into our subsequent readings of our video’s images. We read the images as “time-images” and focus on their five dimensions that possibly activate “spiritual automation” (Deleuze, 1989), which we assess as “negentropic bifurcatory” potentials (Bradley & Kennedy, 2019).

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