Speaking about Godard by Silverman Kaja & Farocki Harun

Author:Silverman, Kaja & Farocki, Harun [Silverman, Kaja]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1998-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

HF: As Patricia says these words, Godard cuts to a black-and-white photograph of Stalin, in which the black has been colored red. How are we to read this image? Is Godard suggesting that Stalin himself speaks through his image? Or has the image been put to someone else’s discursive purposes? A bit later, Gay Knowledge will give us an image of Mao, in which his scarf is colored red. Does the same subject also speak through this image?

KS: Godard seems to be suggesting just that. But the subject who speaks through both images escapes biographical localization. It is not so much Stalin or Mao, as what they represent: the subject who says he knows.20 The French student movement championed Chinese over Soviet communism, but Gay Knowledge proposes that, at least in this respect, the one cannot finally be distinguished from the other.

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