Cidades-imagem: Afirmações e enfrentamentos às políticas da subjetividade

Abstract

In this essay we intend to articulate subjectivities and spaces through images, in the sense in which they may be apprehended based on the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Images of thought, Benjamin invites us to read-see images, not as matter to be deciphered, nor as mere representation of the world, but as a force that might produce an estrangement that emerge from senses that do not reach completeness, that are not enclosed in themselves, that do not constitute totalities. Incomplete senses that emerge from encounters, from collages. Therefore, we shall articulate subjectivities and spaces through images by Haussmann's Paris, the provoking invisible cities by Italo Calvino and by Naples' porosity, narrated by Walter Benjamin. The questions that permeate this work are: what do the cities-image affirm, and how do they interrogate the field of studies of subjectivity.