ABSTRACT
Written in the midst of the laboratory phase of the 2017 Judaica project, this essay opens the door to an entirely new practical territory of embodied research through a radical shift in the epistemological positioning of audiovisuality. If the pieces excerpted above argued that video affords a new and distinct kind of access to embodied knowledge, this essay attempts to firmly depose writing as the assumed medium of knowledge and thought. It points to the ways in which writing and especially printing technologies have altered human consciousness and argues for videographic thought as a mode of knowledge that is largely still to come. I find the style here somewhat stilted, due to the influence of Giorgio Agamben, to whose “thought” (that is, writing) this piece responds. I seem to have picked up here, from Agamben, the habit of making bold generalizations that blur the line between history and ontology—a tendency that may be received as either frustrating or exciting. But the points made here are crucial for my current work. 1
