Abstract: The reality is disappearing as a result of digital technology. This may be a typical trend in today’s era. In the face of this absolute and passive disappearance, Paul Virilio and Jean Baudrillard invariably came up with strategies of relative, immanent and active disappearance. However, these strategies ultimately came to a dead end, primarily due to their failure to respond to the fundamental dilemma of the subject disappearance. Thus, the third kind of disappearance implied in their texts--absolute negativity, seems to actually suggest the possibility of certain liberation. From Computationalism to immanent critique, from the fusion of visual effects to separation of images, various techniques of digital films seem to testify the three dimensions of disappearance. An in-depth analysis of the digital nature of digital films not only brings about a deeper understanding of the nature of digital technologies and digital society, but also sheds light on the means and hope of rebuilding subjectivity in a digital universe.

Key words: disappearance, absolute negativity, Computationalism, anti-computing, subjectivity;
separation