Das 'Fotografische' und das Problem der Repraesentation. Interview with Massimo Cacciari. (The 'Photographic' and the Problem of Representation)

A fundamental philosophical discussion between Costantini and the philosopher
Cacciari on (photographic) representation. Cacciari poses the problem of
representation as the quintessential philosophical problem from Plato to
Benjamin and to today. ""Das 'Fotografische' ist keine Duplikation der
Realitaet, sondern die Verkoerperung der gaenzlichen Unmoeglichkeit ihrer
Duplikation''. (The photographic is not a duplication of reality, but the
embodiment of the total impossibility of her duplication). On the relation
between the problem of representation and the idea of time the author states,
""Die Menschen, die die Strassen fotografierender Weise überfluten, zeigen mit
dramatischer Evidenz die Zerstückelung der Zeit''. The ideas of Benjamin,
Bergson, Aby Warburg and Paul Klee are discussed. (German)


Citaten:
Benjamin, W.
Warburg, Aby
Klee, P.
Bergson, H.