Seminar
Political life of the image
Objectives
To go deep into the analysis of the image and its effects on the individual, collective and national identity.
To shed light on the ideological struggles that delimit the definitions about the power of the image.
To discuss the image’s correlate and symmetry with the interpretations about the power of the objects, the myths, narrations, history, spaces and nationality.
Topics to be discussed: Read more
. The image. Definition and debates on the origin of its power. Intertextuality, language and representation. Embodiment of the experience. Sense and discourses.
. The image and the objects. Role of the objects in the articulation of references and in the naturalisation of narrations. Scenarios, statues and souvenirs.
. The image and the myths. Narrations and history. Museums, tales and cinema.
. The image, the identity, the mirrors and the difference.
. The image and the collective identities. Politics as a theatre representation of images.
. The images and the national identity.
During the conferences, photographs of pieces of work on identity and institutional image, carried out in more than 30 countries by Sebastián Guerrini, will be shown.
Notes written by the author will be handed in; these will develop the presented topics, as will the specific bibliography.