Son[i]a #201
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher and art historian. He is a lecturer at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he explores the links between images, words and politics. After his early work on photography and hysteria, Didi-Huberman has gone on to publish more than thirty books about history and the theory of the image, exploring examples that range from the Renaissance to Contemporary Art.
SON[I]A talks to Didi-Huberman about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images, a problematic issue that stems from the definition of what an image is, and from the hierarchy that has historically been imposed on the dialectic between words and images.
Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler talks about education and smartphones, translations and linguists, about economic war, climate change, and political stupidity. We also chat about pharmacology and organology, about the erosion of biodiversity, the vital importance of error, and the Neganthropocene as a desirable goal to work towards, ready to be constructed.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler analyses and questions the proliferation of surveillance systems and self-representations in contemporary society, while telling us about artistic circles in the seventies, the seminal video art scene, and the need to keep chasing utopias.