DERRIDA IR KIEFERIS: IŠNARINTO LAIKO BEIEŠKANT
DERRIDA AND KIEFER: IN SEARCH OF THE DISJOINTED TIME

Summary/Abstract: By employing the metaphor of time out of joint, widely exploited by Jacques Derrida in his Spectres of Marx and by recontextualising the work of Anselm Kiefer, a German painter and sculptor, within post-phenomenological philosophical perspective, this article is stating that Kiefer’s works put into action the spectrality of the disjointed time which solves the problem of representation of the past through transformative materiality. By discussing such Kiefer’s creative motives as luring catastrophe, the dialectics between cultural memory and memory-loss, as well as the alchemic transformation of matter, the potential of artistic mediation is conceptualized and it is showcased how it is capable of healing the memory while resisting the causal logic of past-present-future temporality.

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