Queering Bodies: “Becoming-unrecognisable” in Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together

This paper is interested in the cinematic apparatus’s potential to produce affect which defamiliarises the visible presence of star-bodies in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together (chunguang zhaxie, 1997), thus invoking non-normative and new modes of thinking about queer identification and representation. By close reading the mise-en-scène of the two Iguazu falls sequences, the on-screen star bodies of Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung are defamiliarized when they produce Gilles Deleuze’s affect and “become-unrecognisable” as on-screen subjects. Through this, the encounters with the Iguazu Falls allow us to queer heteronormative and linear narrative time that is associated with (a movement towards) futurity. This inability to pass judgement, I argue, is the ethics of sexual desire which Happy Together proffers when we understand the body that queers and becomes unrecognisable through productive affective assemblages. Instead, we move through the transsensorial potentials for the cinematic assemblage to rethink modes of queering normativity and to redefine bodies in terms of plurality and multiplicity. To that end, this paper presents a new way of thinking about how film stars, familiar tourist spots and even a classic text like Happy Together may be defamiliarized through productions of affects, new-sensations, to provide more ways of revisiting and regarding the film anew.

Inequalities on General Lp-Mixed Chord Integral Difference

In this article, we introduce the concept of general Lp-mixed chord integral difference of star bodies. Further, we establish the Brunn–Minkowski type, Aleksandrov–Fenchel type and cyclic inequalities for the Lp-mixed chord integral difference.

The dual Brunn–Minkowski inequality for log-volume of star bodies

This paper aims to consider the dual Brunn–Minkowski inequality for log-volume of star bodies, and the equivalent Minkowski inequality for mixed log-volume.

The Dual Orlicz–Aleksandrov–Fenchel Inequality

In this paper, the classical dual mixed volume of star bodies V˜(K1,⋯,Kn) and dual Aleksandrov–Fenchel inequality are extended to the Orlicz space. Under the framework of dual Orlicz-Brunn-Minkowski theory, we put forward a new affine geometric quantity by calculating first order Orlicz variation of the dual mixed volume, and call it Orlicz multiple dual mixed volume. We generalize the fundamental notions and conclusions of the dual mixed volume and dual Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality to an Orlicz setting. The classical dual Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality and dual Orlicz-Minkowski inequality are all special cases of the new dual Orlicz-Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality. The related concepts of Lp-dual multiple mixed volumes and Lp-dual Aleksandrov-Fenchel inequality are first derived here. As an application, the dual Orlicz–Brunn–Minkowski inequality for the Orlicz harmonic addition is also established.

Choreographing Architectures of Public Intimacy

Chapter 2 develops a body-space-movement framework that studies the spaces of dance, the movement vocabularies used, and the resulting construction of star bodies. This framework uncovers the production processes behind the fetishized space of the Hindi film cabaret, an “architecture of public intimacy,” whose spatial and choreographic operations arouse intense sensorial stimulation. Through a focus on cabaret numbers featuring the dancing star Helen, this chapter discusses the cine-choreographic practices that produce a collision of infrastructures, bodies, and spaces. The body-space-movement framework is also employed to analyze film dance in relation to Indian “classical” and “folk” dance forms. Borrowing from Indian performance treatises like the Natya Shastra and Abhinaya Darpana, this chapter deconstructs the dancing female body into three broad zones—the face, the torso, and the limbs—each of which is capable of a variety of addresses depending on the social connotations of those gestural articulations at certain historical moments.

Some inequalities for star duality of the radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms

In 2006, Schuster introduced the radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms. In this article, associating with the star duality of star bodies and dual quermassintegrals, we establish Brunn-Minkowski inequalities and monotonic inequality for the radial Blaschke-Minkowski homomorphisms. In addition, we consider its Shephard-type problems and give a positive form and a negative answer, respectively.

Star Faces and Star Bodies in an Age of Atrocity: Alain Cavalier’s L’Insoumis and Mark Robson’s Les Centurions

Often physically flawless to the point of perfection, cinematic stars are frequently metaphorized as gods, or mirrors, of our own collective desires. But why would the iconography of stardom be mobilized to narrate a socio-political phenomenon defined by absolute violence — for example, the war that raged between the French army and Algerian nationalists from 1954 to 1962? Through detailed analysis of Alain Cavalier’s 1964 polar, L’Insoumis, and Mark Robson’s combat film, Les Centurions (1966), this article will trace connections between the history of decolonization and political engagement, and theories of identification, gender, stardom, and spectacle, before examining how the contradictory values embodied by stars in these films mirrored the ideology of a society in a state of contradiction: split between a desire to know the truth about the war and a desire for ignorance.

Orlicz Addition for Measures and an Optimization Problem for the -divergence

This paper provides a functional analogue of the recently initiated dual Orlicz–Brunn–Minkowski theory for star bodies. We first propose the Orlicz addition of measures, and establish the dual functional Orlicz–Brunn–Minkowski inequality. Based on a family of linear Orlicz additions of two measures, we provide an interpretation for the famous $f$-divergence. Jensen’s inequality for integrals is also proved to be equivalent to the newly established dual functional Orlicz–Brunn–Minkowski inequality. An optimization problem for the $f$-divergence is proposed, and related functional affine isoperimetric inequalities are established.