Inter-lures: The performance of capitalism and/as the lure of love

Abstract

This article is based on Miele Bal’s second session after her inaugural lecture at the Collège de France in 2023. She reflects on the relationship between textual and audio-visual images. She argues that filmmaking has two advantages as a research method, an integration central to this article: an intensity of looking and collaboration: working with, rather than looking at, other people. She reflects on the relationship between textual and audio-visual imaging. She also presents the theoretical, aesthetic and social issues that pertain to the transformations of literary and audio-visual media, and of past into present and vice versa; anachronism as a way of thinking. She considers some functions images can fulfil and the way images are generated not by stories but by reflections inherent in stories and modes of storytelling. At the heart of the article is the performance/performativity dialectic; how performing roles cannot remain without performative effects.