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  1. One divided by another : split and conversion in Pasolini's "San Paolo"
    Published: 11.12.2019

    By focusing on Pasolini's uncompleted film project "San Paolo", Luca Di Blasi's article 'One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini's "San Paolo"' analyzes the notion of split (the split in the structure of time and, above all, the... more

     

    By focusing on Pasolini's uncompleted film project "San Paolo", Luca Di Blasi's article 'One Divided by Another: Split and Conversion in Pasolini's "San Paolo"' analyzes the notion of split (the split in the structure of time and, above all, the split of the figure of Paul) and concentrates especially on the very moment of Paul's Damascene conversion. Di Blasi refers to the "Kippbild" as a model that can be used to understand better certain ambivalences in Pasolini's Paul. Locating Pasolini's reading of the founder of the Church in a triangulation with two major contemporary philosophers, Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, Di Blasi shows that two opposing possibilities of interpreting Paul - as militant subject of a universal event and its necessary consequences (Badiou) and as representative of softness, weakness, poverty, "homo sacer" (Agamben) - fit perfectly with the two aspects of Pasolini's Paul. Pasolini's profoundly split Paul thus represents a dichotomy which disunites two major figures of contemporary leftist thought.

     

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    Source: CompaRe
    Language: English
    Media type: Part of a book; Part of a book
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-85132-681-9
    DDC Categories: 791; 800; 850
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Paulus, Apostel, Heiliger; Badiou, Alain; Agamben, Giorgio; Drehbuch; Drehbuchautor; Konversion <Religion>; Spaltung
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  2. Splitting images : understanding irreversible fractures through aspect change
    Published: 03.03.2020

    The Rubin vase and duck-rabbit have two things in common: not only are they famous multistable figures, or 'Kippbilder', but before being discovered by scientists and philosophers, they both started their career as simple jokes. In contrast to usual... more

     

    The Rubin vase and duck-rabbit have two things in common: not only are they famous multistable figures, or 'Kippbilder', but before being discovered by scientists and philosophers, they both started their career as simple jokes. In contrast to usual understandings of 'Kippbilder', this paper will try to demonstrate that 'Kippbilder' can be a helpful model for understanding better dramatic, existential, and even religious events and their consequences. Multistable figures or 'Kippbilder' combine reversibility and irreversibility in an interesting way. While the so called first aspect change introduces an irreversible split, all subsequent aspect changes can be understood as an endless chain of reversible changes. After discussing the specificity of the Rubin vase and its aspect changes and focussing then on the distinction between first and further aspect changes, Di Blasi suggests the productive potential of the multistable figure as model for eventful events in discussing the conversion of Paul and his 'hōs mē' ('as if not').

     

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    Source: CompaRe
    Language: English
    Media type: Article
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-85132-734-2
    DDC Categories: 800
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Inversionsfigur; Wahrnehmungswechsel; Gestaltpsychologie; Damaskuserlebnis
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