You Saw Nothing: Sight, Digital Video, Post-3.11 Japan
[Abstract]
[Introduction]
Opening Vignette + Research Framework
The Aesthetics of Intimacy and Opacity + Waiting Room
The Semiotics of Speed, Time–Space Compression
The Realm of Sight + Digital Video and Structural Film
Nothingness
[Waiting Room]
[Chapter 1]
The Highest Point
Automobile, Speed, Moving Image
Cabin and Car Windows: Zabriskie Point + Decompression
Slow-down + Stillness, Incongruence
Structural Automation, Loop
Informatisation, Automatic Shift
[Chapter 2]
The Neoliberal State and Globalisation
Exterior–Interior
Semi-peripherality
[Chapter 3]
Relinquishment
Invited Footage + The Plurality of “I”
First Person
Ambiguity + Disidentification
Whose Story?
[Afterimage]
Other Texts
Absence
Afterword for Slow: Trembling Leaves, Automobile Sounds