phantasmagorical

Examples of phantasmagoria

phantasmagoria
It is the movement away from the complexities of the world and into a unified artistic production - into phantasmagoria.
Since they provide a total experience in a fragmented world, phantasmagoria are as marked by what they leave out as by what they keep in.
And both dome and phantasmagoria gather and order sensory data to suggest a coherent whole rather than a buzzing confusion.
It reads phantasmagoria as the dominance of things and thing-like qualities over the relational and social aspects of production.
However, on this first answer, the very consistency of that gesture may end up undercutting the phantasmagoria on the level of totality.
In all three examples of 'simulated geography', spatial distance, articulated as a position of difference, becomes the very means by which phantasmagoria effects its integration.
We offset or subvert phantasmagoria by looking where we are not supposed to, or by physically going where the techno-totality is revealed for a production.
Adorno postulates that the primary media of phantasmagoria are colour and sonority, but, again, his understanding of these components is marked by a certain ambivalence.
Phantasmagoria is only an index of falsehood, it can never posit in the affirmative.
Phantasmagoria here tends towards the transcendence of its anaesthetic function and towards an implication of the consumer in the stage economy.
Phantasmal love gives way to phantasmagoria of fear, hate, and revenge.
But this approach seems to subscribe to a relatively limited view of what constitutes a 'technology', focusing on the work of composer, librettist and stage director repressed in phantasmagoria.
Not only do phantasmagoria shut me off from reality, then, but they gradually and artfully reconcile me to reality, in spite of my very real alienation from it.
What exactly is behind the scenes is, as we will see, the subject of some debate - what are the means of production that the phantasmagoria occludes?
Despite all of the phantasmagoria it displays, the film made use of a dream paradigm that, aside from the popular culture context, was also circulating in scientific circles.
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