The readers of the espresso will recall the tip of the last minutes of real Alice, recorded as the police were hammered its door. One thing it impressed many people with how the announcer, as reported in a tense voice was happening, tried to convey this situation by referring to see in a movie. Undoubtedly something singular botany individual going through a fairly traumatic experience as if he were a film.
There can be only to interpretations. One is the traditional: life is lived as a work of art. The other obliges us to reflect a bit further: is the visual work (among, videotape, mural, comic strip, photograph) that is now part of our memory. Which is quite different, and seems to confirm hypothesis are you ventured, namely that the younger generations have absorbed as elements of their behavior a series of elements filtered through the mass media (incoming, in some cases, from the most impenetrable areas of our sentries and artistic experimentation). To tell the truth, it is even necessary to talk about new generations: if you're barely middle - aged, you will learn to personally the extent to which experience (love, fear, or hope) is filtered through " already seen " images. I leave it to moralistic for this way of living by intermediate communication. We missed only bear in mind that mankind has never done anything else, and before the dark and gloomy eras, it used other images, drawn from peak in carvings and the illuminated manuscripts of the apocalypse.
We can foresee another objection, this time not from cherishes of the tradition: is it perhaps a non plus an example of the theology of scientific neutrality, the way, we're faced by active behavior and searing, dramatic events, we will strike again and again to analyze them, define them, interpret them, the SEC them? Can we define that which by definition a wind chill the fighting? Well, we must have the courage to assert once more we believe it: today more than ever political views itself as marked, motivated, but in the nearest but the symbolic. Understanding the mechanisms of the symbolic in which we love beads been political. Not understanding the leaves of stake in politics. Of course, there's also a mistake to reduce political and economic events to your symbolic mechanism; but is equally wrong to ignore this to mention.
There are unquestionably many reasons, and serious ones, for the outcome of the Xi'an of Thomas intervention at the University of Rome, the one particular reason must not be overlooked: the opposition is me to theatrical a special structures. Law, presented himself on a podium (however makeshift), the us obey the rules of the frontal communication characteristic of treaty, working - class spatial tea, facing a crowd of students love, however, developed other ways of aggregation and interaction, decentralize, Mobil, apparently disorganized. This is a different way of organizing space and so that they to university was the clash also between two concepts of perspective, the one we might call for election and the other cubist period true anymore reducing the whole story to these factors to be mistaken, but anyone trying to dismiss this interpretation as intellectual game will be mistaken to. The Catholic Church, the French Revolution, boxes, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, the to mention the rolling Stones in soccer clubs, who was known very well that the deployment of space is religion, politics, theology. So let's give back to the spatial and the visual to please the desert in the history of political and social relations.
And now to another of debt. These past months, within that ferrying dated and shifting experience is called " the movement, " the man carrying 387 murders. From various quarters the movement has been asked to denounce them as an alien body; and the forces exerted pressure both for outside and from within. Apparently this demand for rejection encountered difficulties, and various elements came to play synthetically, we can say that many belonging to the movement didn't feel like labeling is outside forces that, even if they revealed themselves and unacceptable tragically to sideways, seem to express reality of social protest could be denied. I repeat discussions all of us of heard. Basically what was said was this: they are wrong, but they're part of a mass movement. And the debate was harsh, painful.
Al, last week, the record a kind of precipitation of all the elements of the debate previously suspended in concert tea. Sadly, unnecessarily because decisive statements were issued in the space of a day, the gunman were caught off. White that moment? Why not before? It's not enough to save it recent events in Golan made it decompression of many people, because similar events of Rome and also had a profound effect.
What happened was Different? We may venture hypothesis, once again recalling that an explanation never explains everything, but becomes part of a landscape of explanations and reciprocal relationship. A photograph appeared.
The photographs of appeared, but this one did around to all the papers after being published in the Korea did from us yacht. As everyone will recall, was the photograph of a young men were indicted ski mask, standing alone, in profile, in the middle of the street, makes apart, arms outstretched horizontal, with both hands clasping a pistol. Other forms can be seen in the background, but the photograph structure is classical in its simplicity: the central figure, isolated, dominates it.
If it is listed (and it is necessary) to make aesthetic observations in such cases this is one of those photographs the will go down in history and will appear in thousand books. This is aptitudes of our century but some of the few exemplary photographs that have proved at a committee: Dear we crowd pouring into the Square during the " 10 days that shook the World "; Robert Kaplan is dying this non of; the Marines plenty the flag on Iwo Jima; the Vietnamese prisoner being executed with a shot in the temples; chez how Ferris tortured body of plenty of barracks. Each of these images has become a myth and as can't danced numerous speeches. It is surpassed the individual circumstance that produced it; it no longer speaks of that single character are of those characters, but expresses concepts. It is unique, but the same time it refers to other images that preceded it were that, in the petition, have folded. Each of these photographs seems a filled with see it refers to other films that had seen it. Sometimes it is a photograph of a painting, or a poster.
What did the photograph of the abilities gunmen " say "? I believe it abruptly revealed, without the need for a lot of digress of speeches, something that had been circulating in a lot of talk, but the words alone could make people except. That photograph to resemble any the images which, for East for generations, had been ambles of the idea of revolution. The collective element was missing; in a traumatic way the figure of the load hero return on here. In this loan hero was not the one familiar revolutionary I demography, which would portray a band along only saw his victim, sacrificial lamb: the dying as us eon of of the slain Shea, in fact. This individual hero, on the contrary, had the Post, the terrifying isolation of the tough - guy of gangster movies with a solitary gunman of the west - Bill longer dear to a generation consider themselves metropolitan medians.
This image suggested other worlds, other figurative, narrative traditions that have nothing to do with the propeller. Tradition, with the idea of popular revolt, of mass struggle. Suddenly inspired some drum of rejection. Keen to express the following concept: Revolution is elsewhere and, even if it's possible, it doesn't perceive fight this " individual " act.
The photograph, for civilization Bell accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event (and, in fact, it makes no difference to the man was, nor does the photograph help in identifying him "): it was an ordinance. And worked. It is of no interest to note was posed (and therefore fate), whether with the testimony of an act of conscience bravado, and was the work of professional photographer who bathes the moment, the light, the frame, or whether it virtually to itself, was snapped accidentally by unskilled and what he hands. At the moment it appeared, it's communicative careered began: once again the political and the private had been marked by the plots of the symbolic, which, as always happens, has proved producer of reality.
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