Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004)

Tuck, Greg

Abstract

This paper uses the cinema of Tuskamoto Shinya to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the ‘flesh’. Flesh rejects the ontological antinomy between the empirical and the rational, our determination by either matter or ideas, in favour of a more synthetic description of our incarnate historical being. Flesh critiques theories of ontology reliant on determination via discourse or matter in favour of a dynamic reversibility between embodied subjects who are enabled by/ emerge from this flesh-of-the-world. Tuskamto’s cinema offers us a way to understand how flesh allows for a space of non-coincidence and difference which upholds the positive status of alterirty in light of these bonds.

Citation

Tuck, G. (2009, July). Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004). Paper presented at 2nd Film Philosophy Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 2nd Film Philosophy Conference
• Conference Location: University of Dundee, Scotland
• Start Date: Jul 1, 2009
• End Date: Jul 1, 2009
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: phenomenology, mourning, death, flesh
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/994901