Toward a politics of images in Georges Didi-Huberman
Constellation; heuristics; knowledge; politics of images; restitution.
This study consisted in an effort of thinking a politics of images coming from Georges DidiHuberman, which, to some degree, required us to come up with three planes of composition: one in the field of knowledge, finding in his heuristics the axis capable of articulating a knowledge in relationship to páthos. Therefore, we resorted to an aesthetic paradigm of thought taken from the philosophy of Walter Benjamin, known as constellation. Thus, the constellation of heuristics has enabled us to compose one such kind of knowledge conjoined with emotions; one in the field of politics, which, instead of differentiating between public and private, potentiality and actuality, praxis and poiesis, is itself inscribed in some other sphere, the one of gestures, allowing us to meet up with a politics of exposition, in which it exposes what is about to be lost- what is disappearing. Right there, paradoxically, we see ourselves faced with the being in common, which appears when exposed and when we appear along with it, thus requiring from us other modes of relation: imagination, taking a stand and empathy; at last, one in the field of image, which, instead of being a reservoir of human illusions, becomes a place of removal of knowledges: about our sufferings, about what we are not, about pasts that didn‟t come to be, about what we‟re still incapable of knowing, about actually not-knowing, about cholera and about our potentialities. All of this meant to think and point out the displacements of images in the body of this other theory, this politics of images, whose function is to retrieve images to the free common usage of men, to make them cognizable. Perhaps, this would be it‟s main attribution: to make cognizable, so that all else is possible.