Bello Horror. La imagen de la revuelta en Walter Benjamin

Abstract

In this paper I’ll research the connection established by Walter Benjamin’s between the Denkbild Beautiful Horror and the reference to the Spartacus League in On the Concept of History. Although this short text hasn’t been considered in this context, I’ll show that the visual and sound montage, political emotions and affects that Benjamin developed there is the kernel of his reflections on the temporality of the revolt. Beautiful Horror gathers and articulates in a plastic way the key elements of his idea of the revolutionary insurrection and shows how he conceives the link between politics and images.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ag.35.1.2221