%0 Journal Article
%T Poetry, Thought, and Image Intertwined: ¡°El Truco Preferido de Sat¨¢n¡± by Walter Benjamin and Alberto Garc¨ªa-Alix
%J -
%D 2018
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/3095
%X This paper proposes an exploration of various points of intersection between poetry, thought and contemporary photography by means of a ¡®parallactic¡¯ analysis of the volume El truco preferido de Sat¨¢n, a compilation by Spanish poet Jenaro Talens that features a selection of fragments from Walter Benjamin¡¯s unfinished magnum opus, The Arcades Project, which have been paired up with photographs by Alberto Garc¨ªa-Alix, arguably the most renowned artistic chronicler of the Movida Madrile£¿a in the 1980s. The resulting relationship of intermediality and supplementarity is a complex one, with moments of proximity, but also of extraneation. In order to capture these nuances and to elevate the obtained insights to a more general level, the notion of parallax, particularly in one of Slavoj £¿i£¿ek¡¯s specific formulations, serves as this essay¡¯s methodological framework, as it sets out to understand Garc¨ªa-Alix¡¯s photographs as the elusive, spectral, parallactic supplement that discovers what would otherwise remain hidden in Benjamin¡¯s fragments
%U http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/3095