Like endless swings: aesthetic-political subjectivation processes in photojournalism

Abstract

In this paper, we reflect on the hypothetical capacity of photojournalistic images to collaborate to the emergence of different aesthetic-political subjectivations. In dialogue with the notions of dialectical image and critical image in Walter Benjamin and Georges Didi-Huberman, respectively, besides the very idea of subjectivation in Jacques Rancière, we ponder on the undecidable that permeate our relations, always on a tightrope, with images. By "messing up" the police logic that intends the rigidity of the bodies and their possible, we suggest that certain "products" of photojournalism hold vectors/devices supposedly capable of inspiring [re]configurations of/in the shared sensible, confounding themselves with the ephemerality of which they are participants, in almost oneiric movements, of trembling, that disturb and renew our own look.