The Mystery of the German Writer’s Vessel: provocations from literary and film montage to research in Human Sciences
Luis Antonio dos Santos Baptista
Abstract:This article investigates the politics of the image and montage in the literature and filmmaking as an experimentation with an ethical bet on research in Human Sciences. In the light of Walter Benjamin’s concept of montage, as well as DidiHuberman’s analysis of image as taking a position, it problematizes the insurmountable distance between the subject and the object, the fracture between form and content, ethics and aesthetics in research in the face of the intolerable of an ordinary world. The questions are … Show more
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