Week 7.
I had a thought. About Korsakow. And the readings. And the lectures. So I thought I’d better post it as my weekly extended ponderings/research post.
This thought began after doing the reading, which discusses lists and montages. And then when I thought of Korsakow. Which this course is basically about. Not really. (But, yes, really at the same time.) I wondered whether Korsakow comes under the category of lists or of montages. And then I thought. And I realised that Korsakow is a combination of both. As a concept. If ya get what I mean. Except – it is also nonlinear. It is a combination of linear concepts in a nonlinear way.
Korsakow has clips. A list of clips are interconnected, creating a web of clips. But this doesn’t mean that they’re related. This doesn’t mean that each clip is related to the next. They are still distinct. There are still gaps.
BUT at the same time, these clips are combined. They clash. A clip will clash with its preceding and succeeding clips. This will generate meaning. Like montage. But the meaning will be different each time. Because Korsakow changes its clashings of clips for each viewing. Or using. Whatever you want to call it. The meaning is different each time because Korsakow draws from a web of clips. A jumbled list. And this arbitrary nature of the database structure — the jumbled clip list — means that the gaps between clips are even more potent.
And now I come full circle and get lost in my own thought. If these gaps are even more potent, is meaning also stronger? Or does more potent gaps mean that there is less meaning? Argh. This subject is mean.