you can get a copy of my zine, cinema without organs, by sending $7 to my venmo — @Nick-Karpinski-1. or, you can send $7 to my paypal — nickkarpinski16@gmail.com. in the venmo or paypal payment description, please include your name, email, and mailing address and i will ship you a copy.
additionally, here is an overview of the zine:
cinema without organs is an interdisciplinary zine that features essays from artists and scholars who explore cinema as a site for possibility. cinema without organs riffs on french philosopher, gilles deleuze, and french psychoanalyst, félix guattari’s interpretation of the body without organs. the body without organs is a term originally coined by french artist, antonin artaud. for deleuze and guattari specifically, though, the body without organs is a site for possibility — a place where experimentation and disorganization disrupts structure (the structured body) to create something new.
for deleuze and guattari, ‘the body’ can be generally applied to humans or non-humans or things that can be conceived as animate or inanimate. cinema, for instance, can be viewed as a type of body.
the body without organs exists alongside the structured body. the structured body abides by the rules that govern its organs. by existing alongside the structured body, the body without organs constantly challenges conventions and offers up possibilities for what the body can be, or what the body can do.
cinema without organs exists in that spirit. cinema, like a human body, is not a homogeneous entity that can be reduced to its organs, or the rules that conventionally govern its practices. cinema is amorphous. therefore, as a zine, cinema without organs is a platform for artists and scholars, through their writing, to explore cinema, both formally and narratively, as a site for possibility.