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Words of Light

Theses on the Photography of History

Author(s): Eduardo Cadava
Contributor(s): Branka Arsić (Translator)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Photography, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Beogradski krug
Keywords: history; Benjamin; photography; fascism; aestheticization of politics; image; reproducibility; memory; eternal return as photographic principle; death and photography
Summary/Abstract: Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin’s discussion of the flashes and images of history, he argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entirely trajectory of his writings, including the historical and political consequences of technology, images and history, remembering and forgetting, allegory and mourning.

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