The mother the whore & the dandy

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Another Deleuzian Resnais: l'année dernière à Marienbad as conflict between sadism and masochism

The Deleuzian reading of L'Année dernière à Marienbad proposed here draws less on what has become a virtually canonical concept in film studies – Deleuze's time-image – than on a much earlier work by the same author, Masochism, which treats sadism and masochism as qualitatively different symbolic universes. Resnais's film, with its deployment of mirrors and statuary and its suggestion of a contract between the characters A and X, presents striking resemblances to the world of masochism as described by Deleuze (drawing on the work of Theodor Reik). At the same time, the role of the third protagonist, M, like that of Robbe-Grillet who wrote the screenplay, has Sadean overtones, suggesting that it might be possible to read the film with its diegetic ambiguities as a Möbius strip linking the sadistic and the masochistic world not only with each other, but with the crystalline universe of the time-image

Review of research and development in fluid logic elements

Research and development in multistate fluid logic elements is reviewed in a historical and critical report. The report concludes that in the development of fluid amplifiers, there are elements with very high gain and poor switching speed, and other elements with very high switching speed and poor gain