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  • 标题:Through a (First) Contact Lens Darkly: Arrival, Unreal Time and Chthulucinema
  • 作者:David H. Fleming
  • 期刊名称:Film-Philosophy
  • 印刷版ISSN:1466-4615
  • 电子版ISSN:1466-4615
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:22
  • 期号:3
  • 页码:340-363
  • DOI:10.3366/film.2018.0084
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Film-philosophy
  • 摘要:Science fiction is often held up as a particularly philosophical genre. For, beyond actualising mind-experiment-like fantasies, science fiction films also commonly toy with speculative ideas, or else engineer encounters with the strange and unknown. Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2016) is a contemporary science fiction film that does exactly this, by introducing Lovecraft-esque tentacular aliens whose arrival on Earth heralds in a novel, but ultimately paralysing, inhuman perspective on the nature of time and reality. This article shows how this cerebral film invites viewers to confront a counterintuitive model of time that at once recalls and reposes what Gilles Deleuze called a “third synthesis” of time, and that which J. M. E. McTaggart named the a-temporal “C series” of “unreal” time. We finally suggest that Arrival's a-temporal conception of the future as having already happened can function as a key to understanding the fate of humanity as a whole as we pass from the anthropocene, in which humans have dominated the planet, to the “chthulucene,” in which humans no longer exist on the planet at all.
  • 关键词:Arrival; science fiction; unreal time; Gilles Deleuze; J.M.E. McTaggart; limits of thought
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