Author Archive for: ‘Vivian Sobchack’
The insistent fringe: moving images and the palimpsest of historical consciousness
Uploaded 16 April 1999 History decomposes into images, not into narratives. – Walter Benjamin [W]hat proliferates in historical discourse are elements “below which nothing more can be done except display,” and through which saying reaches its limit, as near as possible to showing. – Michel de Certeau In Medias Res In his 1954 essay on “The Romans in films”, Roland …
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