Rasprizorenja
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translation: Reenactments
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Etymologically, the name of the game Austerlitz plays with photographs, solitaire, leads to the concept of patience. After all, in 2012, Grant Gee shot the film-essay Patience (After Sebald), which establishes a relationship between Sebald's way of being and the motifs from his book The Rings of Saturn. Patience is a quality with which Sebald's characters, as well as his writing, resist the impossibility, which Barthes writes about, to understand duration.
Patience is not agreeing to the impotence that Flusser talks about, claiming that photography begins a 'post-history' in which conceptual thought disappears in the process of recoding thought into numbers, in the mechanization of thought that, by making people incompetent to think, leads them to leave it to machines. Leonida Kovac's Disseminations is an incomparable book in contemporary Croatian essays dedicated to literature and the visual arts, not only because it is inspired by the "metaphysical intervention" undertaken by Walter Benjamin on the path of dialectical and historical materialism, but primarily because the basic subject of the analytical discussion, the introductory but also the main character, Austerlitz - taken from the 2001 novel of the same name by German writer W. G. Sebald - here, on the pages of her book, she meets Malte Laurids Brigge from Rainer Maria Rilke's "Notes", from 1910.
