A policy of images: about cinema and sensations

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand how certain ways to deal with an image – here, particularly, the cinematographic image – politically affects our sensibility, our memory and our imagination. Going from the studies of Walter Benjamin about the interpenetration between esthetics and politics we will discuss the different ways to deal with the excess on films. Initially will be presenting the ideas of the German philosopher Christoph Türcke, who sets out how an “audiovisual gun-machine” transmits imagetic shocks to the human sensory, building new kinds of filing. Next we will discuss how – politically – ways of fillings can be cause differently, in keeping with the way by the excess is treated in some tendencies of the contemporary cinema.
KEYWORDS: Cinema. Politics. Excess. Sensibility. Esthetics.