New podcast: A rare interview in English with the philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman.
Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/georges-didi-huberman/capsula Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher and art historian. He is a lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he explores the links between images, words and politics. After his early work on photography and hysteria, Didi-Huberman has gone on to publish more than thirty books about history and the theory of the image, exploring examples that range from the Renaissance to Contemporary Art. SON[I]A talks to Didi-Huberman about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images, a problematic issue that stems from the definition of what an image is, and from the hierarchy that has historically been imposed on the dialectic between words and images. Timeline 00:58 Words and images 04:32 Signs and symptoms 09:08 Knowledge and not-knowledge 10:31 Being and value 12:35 Definition and comparison 14:54 Lost pieces and remains 17:07 Overexposure and underexposure 18:57 Aesthetics and politics Enjoy!
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