The Minister of Culture and Tourism attended the seminar this afternoon at 'Iconoclasm and iconolatry.
Image, terrorism and blind ', which was organized by the group Brumaria, one of the most important Spanish groups in thinking of the political, houses the Centre for Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art (Cendeac) from yesterday until tomorrow.
In today's session, which also counted with the participation of Joseba Zulaika, a professor at Princeton University, and Keti Chukrov, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Cruz said in his lecture 'The image (b) scena.
Foundations for a new politics of visuality ', a theory about the impossibility of terrorist image now because, given the overabundance of images around us, "our ability to see them has been overcome, so that we can hardly speak an image of a terrorist or political image. "
"We live daily with pictures," he said and therefore become invisible.
Not involved in society because they are, but not seen. "
The seminar will end tomorrow with the papers of the philosopher and professor of Political Science and Administration of the Autonomous University of Madrid Carlos Taibo and program director of Sotheby's Contemporary Art Institute of London, Anthony Downey.
Source: CARM