Cierpliwe spojrzenie w społeczeństwie zmęczenia. Wizualne szanse w późnej twórczości Terrence’a Malicka
A Patient Gaze in the Burnout Society. Visual Opportunities in Terrence Malick's Late Work

Summary/Abstract: Exhaustion in a post-Fordist society has become a common condition. It has become a part of the new spirit of cognitive capitalism, which appropriates not only the field of work but also that of leisure, often making it impossible to separate the two spheres. In search of an alternative model of recovery tiredness, proposed by Peter Handke, I analyse Terrence Malick's late work from the perspective of visual culture studies. In doing so, I reflect on the possibility of a different, 'patient' gaze through the camera eye. Using Mirzoeff's concept of countervisuality, it is argued that the distinctive mode of narration in the American director's films could be a contribution to thinking about beauty, stillness and persistence, which are potentially constitutive of exhaustion itself.

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