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A post-structuralist approach argues that to understand an object (a text, for example), one must study both the object itself and the systems of knowledge that produced the object.[12

William Wees has observed that ‘found-footage films nearly always have the effect of bracketing the images and calling attention to them as images, as constructed representations, and therefore as something that can be deconstructed or “undone”’

Post-structuralism rejects the structuralist notion that the dominant word in a pair is dependent on its subservient counterpart, and instead argues that founding knowledge on either pure experience (phenomenology) or on systematic structures (structuralism) is impossible,[10] because history and culture actually condition the study of underlying... See more

The abject has to do with "what disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules".

however, this intimate connection between face and frame forms the basis for an investigation and renegotiation of screen space, as fragments of narrative cinema are disarticulated, superimposed, distorted, and juxtaposed

while the ascendance of

the #BlackLivesMatter movement, founded by three queer women—Alicia

Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi—can be seen to vindicate the “Afro-

Optimist” position that affirms instead the primacy, vibrancy, and

generative

capacity

of black social life.

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To be sure, this opposit

Jafa reasons that “when we were brought to the Americas as slaves we were generally seen as material ourselves. You don’t really have the leeway to go out and select your own materials. So a lot of our creativity coalesced around the notion of treatment, that is, transforming in some meaningful fashion given materials.” (