"Mandatory training": Online teaching, and dialectical space

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dc.contributor.authorTarrant, Patricken
dc.contributor.editorBrett, Oliveren
dc.contributor.editorHarries, Rhiannonen
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-01T14:21:10Z
dc.date.available2026-09-01T14:21:10Z
dc.date.issued2026-09-04en
dc.description.abstractIn this piece I reflect on my video essay “Mandatory Training” (Patrick Tarrant, 2021), produced during the COVID-19 lockdown, which juxtaposes online filmmaking pedagogy with compulsory institutional e-learning modules on “Fire Safety” and “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion”. Through the pairing of recorded audio from the training with images sourced from mid-twentieth-century Bolex magazines, the work critiques the bureaucratisation of discourses on equality. Central to the essay’s formal approach is the productive role of software-generated auto-translation errors, which introduce disruptions that destabilise managerial language. Drawing on concepts of interpassivity and Deleuzian deterritorialisation, the reflection contends that these glitches create a dialectical space not achievable through simple juxtaposition alone. Rather than offering corrective commentary, the errors operate sensorially, exposing the ideological poverty of corporate training discourse and its colonisation of collective political space, while foregrounding failure as a generative force within practice-based research.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationTarrant, P. (2026) '"Mandatory training": Online teaching, and dialectical space', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 31, pp. 96–100. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.07en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.31.07en
dc.identifier.endpage100en
dc.identifier.issued31
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage96en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19153
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.rights© 2026, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.title"Mandatory training": Online teaching, and dialectical spaceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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