The concept of arbitrariness

The concept of “arbitrariness” is based on the political demand that nothing be accepted as natural. This is not a denial of meanings but rather a recognition of the imposition of ideologies. Anything that smacks of essence or the pregiven is inimical to a materialist aesthetic politics. Religion similarly. In film, as in all representational practices, various discourses clash. There is a political conflict. And forms clash as they are political meanings, are in political conflict both as meaning and for the meanings they “contain.”