0 a confused group of real or imagined images that change quickly, one following the other as in a dream --
Despite all of the phantasmagoria it displays, the film made use of a dream paradigm that, aside from the popular culture context, was also circulating in scientific circles.
What exactly is behind the scenes is, as we will see, the subject of some debate - what are the means of production that the phantasmagoria occludes?
Not only do phantasmagoria shut me off from reality, then, but they gradually and artfully reconcile me to reality, in spite of my very real alienation from it.
But this approach seems to subscribe to a relatively limited view of what constitutes a 'technology', focusing on the work of composer, librettist and stage director repressed in phantasmagoria.
Phantasmal love gives way to phantasmagoria of fear, hate, and revenge.
Phantasmagoria here tends towards the transcendence of its anaesthetic function and towards an implication of the consumer in the stage economy.
Phantasmagoria is only an index of falsehood, it can never posit in the affirmative.
Adorno postulates that the primary media of phantasmagoria are colour and sonority, but, again, his understanding of these components is marked by a certain ambivalence.
