Luis A. Recoder holds an MFA in Film and PhD in Philosophy. He is the author of Zwangsanalyse: An Essay on Adorno and the Compulsion of the Dialectic (xenomoi, 2025). His projection performances and installations with Sandra Gibson have been featured in major exhibitions, including Expanded Cinema: Film als Spektakel, Ereignis und Performance (HMKV, 2004), Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception (TATE Modern, 2009), and Celluloid (EYE Filmmuseum, 2016). He is based in New York City.Kenneth White is Program Director in Visual Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies at The New School. He is editor of the books Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable (Black Dog, 2015) and, with Annette Michelson, Michael Snow (MIT Press, 2019).

• .- Chapter 1: Introduction: On the Greater Aspiration of Annette Michelson’s ‘Film and the Radical Aspiration’ Luis A. Recoder.- PART I: LESSONS.- Chapter 2: Film’s Radical Aspirations and Primitive Origins: Lessons from Annette Michelson Tom Gunning.- Chapter 3: Rupture: Annette Michelson’s ‘Cinematic Turn’: Between Art (History) and Film (Studies) Filip Lipiński.- Chapter 4: Lonely Predecessors: Michelson’s Deren John David Rhodes.- Chapter 5: Nothing: A Primer Enrico Camporesi and Federico Windhausen.- PART II: METAHISTORIES.- Chapter 6: Monoliths and Monuments: Annette Michelson’s Metahistory of Film and the Case of Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son Jonathan Walley.- Chapter 7: Analyst as Analysand: Annette Michelson as Patient in Journeys from Berlin/1971 Rachel Churner.- Chapter 8: The Mummy 3: Dream Plumbers Brian L. Frye.- Chapter 9: Frampton’s Proof Lisa Zaher.- PART III: MODERNISM AND SCIENCE.- Chapter 10: ‘The Theory of Relativity on the Screen’: Michelson, Modernism and Science Malcolm Turvey.- Chapter 11: ‘Illusions, of necessity’: Paul Sharits’ Quantum Affinities Gregory Zinman.- Chapter 12: Infantilism and Maturity: Annette Michelson and the Developmentalist Model of the Avant-Garde Daniel Morgan.- Chapter 13: A Monument Aloof: Anemic Cinema, Autism, and the Language of Criticism Ryan Pierson.- PART IV: TRANSGRESSION AND INSTITUTION.- Chapter 14: Transgression and Institution: The Cinema of the American Avant-Garde (1994) Annette Michelson.- Chapter 15: Reading Michelson Reading Bataille: On “Transgression and Institution” Luis A. Recoder.- Afterword: Brunch, Monk, Capitalism, and other Dematerializations: Sparring with Annette Michelson 1971–2018 Peter Gidal.- Index.

Luis A. Recoder holds an MFA in Film and PhD in Philosophy. He is the author of Zwangsanalyse: An Essay on Adorno and the Compulsion of the Dialectic (xenomoi, 2025). His projection performances and installations with Sandra Gibson have been featured in major exhibitions, including Expanded Cinema: Film als Spektakel, Ereignis und Performance (HMKV, 2004), Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception (TATE Modern, 2009), and Celluloid (EYE Filmmuseum, 2016). He is based in New York City.Kenneth White is Program Director in Visual Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies at The New School. He is editor of the books Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable (Black Dog, 2015) and, with Annette Michelson, Michael Snow (MIT Press, 2019).

• .- Chapter 1: Introduction: On the Greater Aspiration of Annette Michelson’s ‘Film and the Radical Aspiration’ Luis A. Recoder.- PART I: LESSONS.- Chapter 2: Film’s Radical Aspirations and Primitive Origins: Lessons from Annette Michelson Tom Gunning.- Chapter 3: Rupture: Annette Michelson’s ‘Cinematic Turn’: Between Art (History) and Film (Studies) Filip Lipiński.- Chapter 4: Lonely Predecessors: Michelson’s Deren John David Rhodes.- Chapter 5: Nothing: A Primer Enrico Camporesi and Federico Windhausen.- PART II: METAHISTORIES.- Chapter 6: Monoliths and Monuments: Annette Michelson’s Metahistory of Film and the Case of Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son Jonathan Walley.- Chapter 7: Analyst as Analysand: Annette Michelson as Patient in Journeys from Berlin/1971 Rachel Churner.- Chapter 8: The Mummy 3: Dream Plumbers Brian L. Frye.- Chapter 9: Frampton’s Proof Lisa Zaher.- PART III: MODERNISM AND SCIENCE.- Chapter 10: ‘The Theory of Relativity on the Screen’: Michelson, Modernism and Science Malcolm Turvey.- Chapter 11: ‘Illusions, of necessity’: Paul Sharits’ Quantum Affinities Gregory Zinman.- Chapter 12: Infantilism and Maturity: Annette Michelson and the Developmentalist Model of the Avant-Garde Daniel Morgan.- Chapter 13: A Monument Aloof: Anemic Cinema, Autism, and the Language of Criticism Ryan Pierson.- PART IV: TRANSGRESSION AND INSTITUTION.- Chapter 14: Transgression and Institution: The Cinema of the American Avant-Garde (1994) Annette Michelson.- Chapter 15: Reading Michelson Reading Bataille: On “Transgression and Institution” Luis A. Recoder.- Afterword: Brunch, Monk, Capitalism, and other Dematerializations: Sparring with Annette Michelson 1971–2018 Peter Gidal.- Index.

Luis A. Recoder holds an MFA in Film and PhD in Philosophy. He is the author of Zwangsanalyse: An Essay on Adorno and the Compulsion of the Dialectic (xenomoi, 2025). His projection performances and installations with Sandra Gibson have been featured in major exhibitions, including Expanded Cinema: Film als Spektakel, Ereignis und Performance (HMKV, 2004), Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception (TATE Modern, 2009), and Celluloid (EYE Filmmuseum, 2016). He is based in New York City.Kenneth White is Program Director in Visual Studies and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies at The New School. He is editor of the books Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable (Black Dog, 2015) and, with Annette Michelson, Michael Snow (MIT Press, 2019).

• .- Chapter 1: Introduction: On the Greater Aspiration of Annette Michelson’s ‘Film and the Radical Aspiration’ Luis A. Recoder.- PART I: LESSONS.- Chapter 2: Film’s Radical Aspirations and Primitive Origins: Lessons from Annette Michelson Tom Gunning.- Chapter 3: Rupture: Annette Michelson’s ‘Cinematic Turn’: Between Art (History) and Film (Studies) Filip Lipiński.- Chapter 4: Lonely Predecessors: Michelson’s Deren John David Rhodes.- Chapter 5: Nothing: A Primer Enrico Camporesi and Federico Windhausen.- PART II: METAHISTORIES.- Chapter 6: Monoliths and Monuments: Annette Michelson’s Metahistory of Film and the Case of Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son Jonathan Walley.- Chapter 7: Analyst as Analysand: Annette Michelson as Patient in Journeys from Berlin/1971 Rachel Churner.- Chapter 8: The Mummy 3: Dream Plumbers Brian L. Frye.- Chapter 9: Frampton’s Proof Lisa Zaher.- PART III: MODERNISM AND SCIENCE.- Chapter 10: ‘The Theory of Relativity on the Screen’: Michelson, Modernism and Science Malcolm Turvey.- Chapter 11: ‘Illusions, of necessity’: Paul Sharits’ Quantum Affinities Gregory Zinman.- Chapter 12: Infantilism and Maturity: Annette Michelson and the Developmentalist Model of the Avant-Garde Daniel Morgan.- Chapter 13: A Monument Aloof: Anemic Cinema, Autism, and the Language of Criticism Ryan Pierson.- PART IV: TRANSGRESSION AND INSTITUTION.- Chapter 14: Transgression and Institution: The Cinema of the American Avant-Garde (1994) Annette Michelson.- Chapter 15: Reading Michelson Reading Bataille: On “Transgression and Institution” Luis A. Recoder.- Afterword: Brunch, Monk, Capitalism, and other Dematerializations: Sparring with Annette Michelson 1971–2018 Peter Gidal.- Index.