Issue #87 Self-Destruction as Insurrection, or, How to Lift the Earth Above All That Has Died?

Self-Destruction as Insurrection, or, How to Lift the Earth Above All That Has Died?

Irmgard Emmelhainz

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Wael Noureddine, Ça sera beau (From Beirut with Love), 2005. Courtesy of the artist.

Issue #87
December 2017










Notes
1

See Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Fog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation,” e-flux journal 82 (May 2017) .

2

Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image: Cinema 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minesotta Press, 2003), 219–22.

3

Félix Guattari, Les années d’hiver (1980–1985) (Paris: Prairies ordinaires, 2009), 67.

4

Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2002), 11.

5

See Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part I: From Representation’s Ruin to Salvaging the Real,” e-flux journal 69 (January 2016) .

6

See Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Brooklyn: Verso, 2015).

7

Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (Brooklyn: Verso, 2016), 67.

8

See Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (New York: Zone Books, 2015).

9

See Jodi Dean, “Politics without Politics,” Parallax 15, no. 3 (2009): 20–36.

10

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).

11

Nicole Brenez, “Contre-attaques. Soubresauts d’images dans l’histoire de la lute de classes,” in Soulèvements (Paris: Gallimard, Jeu de Paume, 2016), 72.

12

Daney, “Before and After the Image”

13

Jacques Rancière, “The Future of the Image,” in The Future of the Image (London: Verso, 2007).

14

Dean, Crowds and Party, 16.

15

Ibid., 21.

16

Hamid Dabashi, “Facing our revolutions: Shirin Neshat’s pictures from Egypt,” Al Jazeera, March 26, 2014 .

17

Daney, “Before and After the Image.”

18

Jalal Toufic, “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster,” 2009 .

19

“Native American Activist Winona LaDuke at Standing Rock: It’s Time to Move On from Fossil Fuels,” Democracy Now, September 12, 2016 .

20

See Deleuze, The Time-Image, 169.

21

Berardi, Heroes, 181.

22

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.