See Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Fog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation,” e-flux journal 82 (May 2017) →.
Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image: Cinema 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minesotta Press, 2003), 219–22.
Félix Guattari, Les années d’hiver (1980–1985) (Paris: Prairies ordinaires, 2009), 67.
Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2002), 11.
See Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part I: From Representation’s Ruin to Salvaging the Real,” e-flux journal 69 (January 2016) →.
See Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Brooklyn: Verso, 2015).
Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (Brooklyn: Verso, 2016), 67.
See Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (New York: Zone Books, 2015).
See Jodi Dean, “Politics without Politics,” Parallax 15, no. 3 (2009): 20–36.
Serge Daney, “Before and After the Image,” trans. Melissa McMahon, Discourse 21, no. 1 (1998): 181–90. Originally published in French as “Avant et après l’image,” Revue d’études palestiniennes 40 (Summer 1991).
Nicole Brenez, “Contre-attaques. Soubresauts d’images dans l’histoire de la lute de classes,” in Soulèvements (Paris: Gallimard, Jeu de Paume, 2016), 72.
Daney, “Before and After the Image”
Jacques Rancière, “The Future of the Image,” in The Future of the Image (London: Verso, 2007).
Dean, Crowds and Party, 16.
Ibid., 21.
Hamid Dabashi, “Facing our revolutions: Shirin Neshat’s pictures from Egypt,” Al Jazeera, March 26, 2014 →.
Daney, “Before and After the Image.”
Jalal Toufic, “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” 2009 →.
“Native American Activist Winona LaDuke at Standing Rock: It’s Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels,” Democracy Now, September 12, 2016 →.
See Deleuze, The Time-Image, 169.
Berardi, Heroes, 181.
Quoted by Rana Dasgupta, “Notes on a Suicide” Granta 140 (August 2017) →.
An earlier version of this text was originally commissioned by the Jeu de Paume’s blog Le Magazin as a response to Georges Didi-Huberman’s exhibition “Soulèvements” (Uprisings). The text was published on January 25, 2017 and is available here →. Thank you to Hend Alawadhi and Stephen Squibb for their insightful comments and suggestions, and to my students at Centro and La Esmeralda for our debates.