{"id":12497,"date":"2023-12-30T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2023-12-30T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T23:32:45","slug":"a-crisis-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/2023\/12\/a-crisis-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"169 Seconds: 2008 &#8211; A Crisis Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"169 Seconds: 2008 - A Crisis Glossary\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/898651954?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This video essay is an outtake from work on films on the 2008 financial crisis, published as <a href=\"https:\/\/mediacommons.org\/intransition\/men-shouting-history-7-episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Men Shouting: A History in 7 Episodes<\/em><\/a>. Material distributed (on black screen) across <em>Men Shouting <\/em>is collected here with the accompanying images from the HBO film <em>Too Big To Fail<\/em> (2011) and the feature <em>The Big Short<\/em> (2015). My theme is the pleasure the films provide by granting access to a masculine heterotopia of jargon and capital. My principle of composition is ambivalence: I try to register the seductiveness of the access granted but render it exasperating. (As such, this is deliberately frustrating, irritating<em> <\/em>scholarship.) My method was to combine fragments of sectoral vocabulary \u2014 extracted from the films by programmer Lucie Vr\u0161ovsk\u00e1 \u2014 using fast dissolves and, sometimes, hard cuts, and to arrange alphabetically these clusters of vocabulary. I have refused the two films\u2019 original aspect ratios and framing, again to complicate the pleasure they proffer. The video essay ends with a question to which the video essay itself is one possible answer.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Vika Paranyuk, Sidse Prehn Thomsen and Barbara Zecchi, and especially to Ariel Avissar and Marie Hallager Andersen, for feedback and guidance during the making of this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Editing, text, ambivalence: Alan O\u2019Leary<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Python: Lucie Vr\u0161ovsk\u00e1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lucie.dev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.lucie.dev<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All images and sounds (cited according to fair use policies):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><em>Too Big To Fail<\/em> (2011), dir. Curtis Hanson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Big Short<\/em> (2015), dir. Adam McKay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>169 SECONDS.  Alan O&rsquo;Leary&rsquo;s <em>169 Seconds: 2008 &#8211; A Crisis Glossary<\/em> deals with two films on the 2008 financial crash, <em>Too Big To Fail<\/em> (2011) and <em>The Big Short<\/em> (2015). The video essay ambivalently foregrounds the pleasure that the films provide by granting access to a masculine world of jargon and capital. Financial terms are combined alphabetically for an absurd experience that perhaps makes a nonsense of its subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":12500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,227],"tags":[437,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12504,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12497\/revisions\/12504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}