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History in Fragments: What Does A Photogenetic Line Tell Us About Dialectical Images?

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Abstract

The essay explores how the composition of the photo-architectural installation A Photogenetic Line (2019) by the Mumbai-based CAMP studio redounds in stretching Walter Benjamin’s multiform conceptual schema of the ‘dialectical image’ on two essential fronts: the flash-like nature of its appearance and its monadic configuration. Decoding this function proffered by the installation, in turn, reveals a revisionary historical materialist approach that rearticulates the question of violence in light of resurgent authoritarian populisms in South Asia


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Presentato: 01 Ottobre 2024 | Pubblicato 11 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: en

Keywords Flash • Monads • Authoritarianism • Photo archive • South Asia • Curatorial

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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-878-1/005


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