Poetry, Thought, and Image Intertwined: 'El Truco Preferido de Satán' by Walter Benjamin and Alberto García-Alix
| Autor: | Marius Christian Bomholt |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Italian |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | CoSMO, Iss 13 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2281-6658 74821660 |
| DOI: | 10.13135/2281-6658/3095 |
| Popis: | This paper proposes an exploration of various points of intersection between poetry, thought and contemporary photography by means of a ‘parallactic’ analysis of the volume El truco preferido de Satán, a compilation by Spanish poet Jenaro Talens that features a selection of fragments from Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus, The Arcades Project, which have been paired up with photographs by Alberto García-Alix, arguably the most renowned artistic chronicler of the Movida Madrileña in the 1980s. The resulting relationship of intermediality and supplementarity is a complex one, with moments of proximity, but also of extraneation. In order to capture these nuances and to elevate the obtained insights to a more general level, the notion of parallax, particularly in one of Slavoj Žižek’s specific formulations, serves as this essay’s methodological framework, as it sets out to understand García-Alix’s photographs as the elusive, spectral, parallactic supplement that discovers what would otherwise remain hidden in Benjamin’s fragments. |
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