Desire, as the Physical Intuition of the Infinite, por Mubarak Ali

Desire, as the Physical Intuition of the Infinite, por Mubarak Ali

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”Give me a body then’ : this is the formula of
philosophical reversal. The body is no longer the
obstacle that separates thought from itself, that
which it has to overcome to reach thinking. It is on
the contrary that which it plunges into or must
plunge into, in order to reach the unthought, that
is life. Not that the body thinks, but, obstinate
and stubborn, it forces us to think what is
concealed from thought, life… The categories of life
are precisely the attitudes of the body, its
postures… ‘Give me a body then’ is first to mount
the camera on an everyday body. The body is never in
the present, it contains the before and the after,
tiredness and waiting. Tiredness and waiting, even
despair are the attitudes of the body…
“But there is another pole to the body, another
cinema-body-thought link. ‘To give’ a body, to mount
a camera on the body, takes on a different sense: it
is no longer a matter of following and trailing the
everyday body, but of making it pass through a
ceremony, of introducing it into a glass cage or a
crystal, of imposing a carnival or a masquerade on
it which makes it into a grotesque body, but also
brings out of it a gracious and glorious body, until
at last the disappearance of the visible body is
achieved.” (Gilles Deleuze, The Time-Image)
Hoy os adelantamos un nuevo artículo íntegro y presentamos a otro de nuestros
colaboradores, Mubarak Ali. En Desire, as a physicall intuition of the infinite,
Ali explora, a través de la fenomenología y las reflexiones sobre la imagen, las
proyecciones del yo en el cine, el poso que resta una vez desnudamos la imagen de
sus atributos.
Lo que tenéis aquí es la versión original inglesa, que ofreceremos también
traducida en el primer número de Détour.