# Sense of Floating ## Contamination Contamination and repetition ([[@shaviro_cinematic_1993]], 5) ←→ linear, psychological causality. > “Where Blade Runner (Shaviro: [[Jean Baudrillard|Baudrillard]] way) presents simulation as loss of the real, Blue Steel grasps it as a productive intensification of reality. (Shaviro: Deleuze and Guattari)” (Shaviro, 1993, p. 5) - (In the terms of current theoretical debates, Scott's view of simulation is similar to [[Jean Baudrillard|Baudrillard]]'s, while Bigelow's has an affinity with that of Deleuze and Guattari; I am formulating this distinction along the lines suggested by Brian Massumi 1987, 1992.) (Shaviro, 1993, p. 5) > “Bigelow affirms and celebrates visceral immediacy as an effect of simulation. Her film is not grounded in nostalgia, but moves in erotically charged rhythms of apprehension and anticipation” (Shaviro, 1993, p. 5) ## Related Notes ```dataview LIST FROM [[202209281847]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## References