Imprints of Movement: Presentation, Re-presentation, Presence
Imprints of Movement: Presentation, Re-presentation, Presence

Summary/Abstract: The matter of presentation and re-presentation has been crucial for the entire legacy of Western philosophy in general and to traditional aesthetics in particular. This paper uses a documentary about the 2001 anti-G8 protests in Genoa to illustrate a number of theoretical questions raised by presentation and re-presentation. I will demonstrate that presentation is always a matter of (involuntary) traces or imprints of a certain movement, which must be opposed to re-presentations, inasmuch as the latter can be seen as a will to presence, as a will to capture and re-iterate presence for various artistic, ideological or scientific purposes.

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