The Images to Come: On Showing the Future without Losing One’s Head

The paper discusses the possibility of a cinematic image which represents future catastrophes, while avoiding ideological entrapments and self-serving fantasies. Taking a Japanese ghost story and a brief note by Walter Benjamin as his dual starting point, the author first attempts to define the poss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam Lipszyc
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warsaw 2020-04-01
Series:Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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Online Access:http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/the-images-to-come-on-showing-the-future-without-losing-ones-head/