NEW WORLD

"NEW WORLD"

 

In the text by Georges Didi-Huberman entitled "The Survival of Fireflies" the metaphorical question is posed whether, despite the prevalence of the machine everywhere, despite urban air pollution and despite the light pollution of cities, the environmentally sensitive firefly species can survive. The author makes a dialogue with the pessimism of P.P.Pasolini who, disillusioned, after 1970, by the absolute prevalence of bourgeois domination in all strata of society, considered that no kind of representation, in the sense that reality defined it as sacred, was possible. The whole realm of the real now passed into the realm of exchange value and the authentic popular elements of reality were definitively lost. The firefly on a metaphorical level expressed precisely these authentic elements of the real.

 

Georges Didi-Huberman assures us that in the nature of the fall there is always a starting point and a point of direction. Never is a fall a total elimination. The representation may be in a fall but it is precisely this movement that does not exhaust it. Georges Didi-Huberman finds that within the representational there can be fragile, fragmentary, empirical, intermittent, scattered areas of truth and that this will continue as long as there is an image. This fragile truth is opposed to revelatory truth which is in essence a truth without revelation because revelation never reveals the truth of the Truth.

 

The image thus becomes a lifeline, a rupture in time, because space has been mastered. The image is something insignificant a remnant a chance event that rescues temporalities of freedom in a condition of ruin. Images as pure event meet Walter Benjamin's dialectical images, Maurice Blanchot's foreignness as opportunity, Foucault's heterotopias and Benoit GoEtz's notion of dislocation. The images in this sense open up the space for a resistance of art that persists in its own rhythms, even in the light of the spotlight of power.