Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

In this paper, I work with Jean Luk Nancy’s theories on the formative force, the desire, the idea, and the image. I map the anti-representational aspect of the diagrams as a revolutionary paradigm, as an operation of forces that offers a new model/structure of thoughts, with iconoclast’s anti-narrative marks, bearing in mind that the first is the container of information and tries to explain the new structure while the latter doesn’t carry any structures. Iconoclast’s marks are for not to look at the image, and here I see the overlap with diagrammatic marks: both as spaces for challenging, criticizing, and revisiting our thoughts. Having that, I am seeking for other connections to a disturbance in figuration/narration, making delay and suspension in them as an iconoclastic gesture. Borrowing from Gilles Chatelet, I use the form of the Gordian knot or tangle to explain such delay in the flow of the system in the situation that the revolution is absent or impossible, while the constant delay making in it can disturb the structure, crack the hierarchies and open space for the simultaneous fragments. At the end, my question is about what can disturbance afford within its forms/politics of the delay making in our contemporary image-saturated culture, in the constant circulation of power struggles between the violence of images and violated images, between the political acts of how images behave in the world and how we behave towards images.