by Jon Lackman | 22 January 2009 | Books, Theory
Georges Didi-Huberman (winner of this year’s CAA award for lifetime achievement in art writing) has just published a new book, Quand les images prennent position. André Gunthert writes:
In a world where images are proliferating in every way, and where their use-values so often leave us disoriented — [shuttling] between the most vulgar propaganda and the most inaccessible esotericism, between a screen function and the possibility of even destroying this screen — it seems necessary to revisit certain practices where the image’s act has truly accorded with critical activity and the work of the mind. In sum, one would like to consider the conditions for a possible politics of the imagination. This essay, the first in a series titled “L’Oeil de l’histoire,” attempts to analyze the concrete procedures and theoretical choices inherent in the reflections of Bertolt Brecht on war …
