Jean-Luc(s)

Abstract

A reading of Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma along with Nancy’s Être singulier pluriel, aiming at the visibility of history, in Godard, not only as image (like Benjamin would put it), i.e., not only as a dynamic tension of times, but also as something necessarily singular plural, as much as being itself, which is necessarily being-with. With Nancy, Godard can be seen against a certain Godard (at least that one, Debordian), proposing a history that deactivates traditional ontological notions, when he presents, not the supposed, delirious, Being, occupying the center of (the always impossible) representation, but, instead, relation, beingwith itself, necessarily mixed with those between-images of his essay.