{"id":18838,"date":"2019-06-03T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/?p=18838"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:13:57","slug":"poetics-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/2019\/06\/poetics-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetics of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18832 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51KhBy99hVL-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51KhBy99hVL-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/51KhBy99hVL.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">How to talk about the past when that same gesture is being co-opted and deactivated by power? This essay follows a red thread in contemporary visual culture to discover certain works that subvert the rules imposed by the so-called Transition culture to refer to the past. The &#8220;Poetics of Absence&#8221; is encrypted in them: These are subjective, unfinished, open and hybrid works between photography and documentary cinema, which use radical editing and re-appropriation techniques to destabilise the idea that the past can be recovered in a harmless way. By questioning the conception of the present as a smooth and problematic space, these works open cracks, as Walter Benjamin wanted, in the homogeneity of history. And in the writing of this essay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Author: Isabel Cadenas Ca\u00f1\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catedra.com\/libro.php?codigo_comercial=169024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to talk about the past when that same gesture is being co-opted and deactivated by power? This essay follows a red thread in contemporary visual culture to discover certain works that subvert the rules imposed by the so-called Transition culture to refer to the past. The &#8220;Poetics of Absence&#8221; is encrypted in them: These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enrecommended-books-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18840,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18838\/revisions\/18840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}