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Fourteen Points to Zabriskie Point.

Zabriskie Point, produced and directed by Michelangelo Antonioni (MGM).
This review has much in it about what’s wrong with Zabriskie Point. Do not be misled. It is a film of exceptional importance. It is seriously flawed, true. But even the flaws themselves have a grandeur about them.
Because Antonioni failed to come to grips with the young people he portrays —in the sense that he is dealing with American young people—Zabriskie Point is an intellectually dishonest work. But—don’t miss it.

k-punk: Home is where the haunt is: The Shining‘s hauntology.

1. The sound of hauntology

Conjecture: hauntology has an intrinsically sonic dimension.

The pun – hauntology, ontology – works in spoken French, after all. In terms of sound, hauntology is a question of hearing what is not here, the recorded voice, the voice no longer the guarantor of presence (Ian P: ‘Where does the Singer’s voice GO, when it is erased from the dub track?’) Not phonocentrism but phonography, sound coming to occupy the dis-place of writing.

Nothing here but us recordings…