Abstract EN:

Our main goal is to propose philosophical concepts that might contribute to arouse a political standpoint that would differ from the one based in State-sovereign representative regimes. We consider that the main cause of the replacement of politics by a managerial-like administration in which very often sovereignty institutions play only the walk-on part, cannot be explained only as the inevitable result of the failure of modernity’s different projects or as the spin-off of a civilization’s crisis within capitalism’s supposed final phase, but rather as the outcome of a technological adrift in which politics is relentlessly linked to image and montage. Cinema is the first in a series of technical-reproduced, industrial-scale moving images that had changed our bond towards time and thus towards archive. This one is not the faculty of memory, but the technical device of the arche. Thus archive defines not only the sense of time but also marks the site in which power, authority and law are signed-in. Our political institutions were built by means of archival inscriptions on a scriptural surface. But our time is the one of a surface where inscription itself has been replaced by a constant modulation of events throughout a widespread montage. So far that it is possible to define XXth century as the one in which politics has become the continuation of montage by other means. Hence, we shall propose a double technologico-political genealogy: that of the contemporary status of our democracies such as the montage-image displays it; and the one who might awake the unlikely ways of a different people’s kratos, such as the one we have found in Bela Tarr’s rhythm and in Ozu’s gestures.