Strange Days – Deleuzian Sensations

Abstract

This chapter examines Kathryn Bigelow's film Strange Days in relation to Gilles Deleuze's concept of sensations. It suggests that although this film is indeed violent, critiques of the aestheticisation of violence failed to consider how the film impacts, vibrates, and connects through its aesthetic resonances as a powerfully moving canvass outside its representational images. The chapter explains that the film offers an experience of a neo-aesthetic engagement which impacts on the consciousness through brain/mind/bodily assemblages.