Aesthetics of Remanence : Analogue Video in the Age of Retrospectacle
This paper proposes a new conceptual frame for the study of analogue video aesthetics in digital culture. Updating Guy Debord’s notion of a “society of the spectacle” (1994), it will argue that we have entered an age of retrospectacle whose dominant signifier is an aesthetics of "remanence"—a term that fuses the magnetic materiality of analogue video with the cultural situation in which it finds i
