Autofiction of the cognitariat : self-criticism of a bourgeois dog
| dc.contributor.author | Cuter, Elisa | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Escola de Comunicação, Arquitetura, Artes e Tecnologias da Informação | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | International Journal of Film and Media Arts | |
| dc.description.abstract | Artists and intellectuals living in precarious conditions (or: belonging to the cognitariat), find themselves at the crossroad between precarity and privilege. Julian Radlmaier’s Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes (Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog GER, 2017) deals with this issue in a very explicit, self-reflexive way. Its protagonist is a filmmaker on the dole who is sent by the German workfare program to work seasonally as an apple picker. Once at the orchard, when the other workers attempt a revolt, he discovers that his attachment to his status as an artist impedes him to join their struggle. The autofictional form of the film, I demonstrate, reflects a subjectivation dynamic that turns into a spiral of perceived debt, guilt, and political paralysis. By internalizing a widespread anti-intellectual bias, the film offers a paradigmatic account of why it is difficult for members of the cognitariat to solidarize with other segments of the precariat or the working class: the difficulty depends largely on the internalization of neoliberal capitalism’s ambivalent consideration of immaterial, cognitive, and creative work. | pt |
| dc.description.status | Non peer reviewed | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cuter , E 2023 , ' Autofiction of the cognitariat : self-criticism of a bourgeois dog ' , International Journal of Film and Media Arts . | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2183-9271 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Lusofona University | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Film and Media Arts | |
| dc.rights | openAccess | |
| dc.subject | AUDIOVISUAL | |
| dc.subject | CINEMATOGRAFIA | |
| dc.subject | TRABALHO PRECÁRIO | |
| dc.subject | CINEMA EUROPEU | |
| dc.subject | FILMES CONTEMPORÂNEOS | |
| dc.subject | PROCESSOS COGNITIVOS | |
| dc.subject | CLASSES SOCIAIS | |
| dc.subject | CINEMATOGRAPHY | |
| dc.subject | PRECARIOUS EMPLOYMENT | |
| dc.subject | EUROPEAN CINEMA | |
| dc.subject | CONTEMPORARY FILMS | |
| dc.subject | COGNITIVE PROCESSES | |
| dc.subject | SOCIAL CLASSES | |
| dc.title | Autofiction of the cognitariat : self-criticism of a bourgeois dog | en |
| dc.type | article |