Counter-Sights and Counter-Times
Georges Didi-Huberman in conversation with Sigrid Weigel at W. M. Blumenthal Academy
Drawing on the political dimensions of Walter Benjamin’s and Hannah Arendt’s thinking, philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman outlines possible ways out of the present in his essay The Survival of the Fireflies, in which he asked to which part of reality—the opposite of a whole—can the image of fireflies as a form of resistance turn?
In his talk for the exhibition The Opposite of Now, followed by a conversation with literary scholar Sigrid Weigel, Didi-Huberman raises the new question of what significance a political allegory can have today.
The philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman is an Honorary Member of the ZfL.
Sigrid Weigel is the former director of the ZfL and Professor emerita at the Technical University of Berlin.