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- Title
Xenochrony: aural media and neoliberal time in Shane Carruth's Primer.
- Authors
Young, Mark
- Abstract
Shane Carruth's time-tripping, paradox-filled debut film Primer (US 2004) evokes the affective conditions of neoliberal time not only through its characters' precarious work life and dreams of get-rich-quick tech entrepreneurship but also through their invention of a time machine that they hope will change their fortunes and enable them to live the equivalent of a post-war, middle-class American dream. Throughout, Abe and Aaron's use of the machine is juxtaposed with the use of aural media storage and playback technologies, which suggests a curious, 'xenochronic' timeclash at the junctures of sonic posthumanism, neoliberal subjectivity and vestigial post-war ideology.
- Subjects
PRIMER (Film); CARRUTH, Shane; SCIENCE fiction films -- History &; criticism; NEOLIBERALISM; TIME travel in motion pictures; SOUND in motion pictures
- Publication
Science Fiction Film & Television, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
1754-3770
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/sfftv.2015.22