Issue 19
Vanishing Points

Logic, Poetics and Ontology of Alphaville

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  • Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben
Miguel Alfonso Bouhaben
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/271

Published 2015-01-01

Keywords

  • Logic,
  • poetics,
  • ontology,
  • Godard,
  • Alphaville,
  • Plato,
  • Laplace.
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Bouhaben, M. A. (2015). Logic, Poetics and Ontology of Alphaville. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (19), 118–124. https://doi.org/10.63700/271

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Abstract

The intention of the present article is to outline the logical, poetical and ontological devices employed in Jean-Luc Godard’s film Alphaville (Alphaville. Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, 1965). To do this, I will attempt an evaluation of both the different logical transgressions committed by Godard in terms of sense-meaning, sense-direction and sense-experience, and his criticism of Platonic and Laplacian absolutism through a defence of the poetry as an anti-normative and anti-scientistic domain. To conclude, I will further explore this critique of Platonism by applying Deleuze’s notion of an ontology of difference to my reading of the film.

 

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