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Manuele Gragnolati
Analogy and Difference
Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana
My paper will discuss Pasolini’s preference for the figure of contradiction and his opposition to Hegelian dialectics, as he understood it, from the perspective of multistable figures or Kippbilder. A Kippbild is a figure that oscillates between distinct aspects without mediation or synthesis. My basic questions are whether it is possible to read Pasolini’s insistence on contradictions in terms of multistable figures and what might be gained from such a reading.
Keywords: Pasolini, Pier Paolo; Eumenides (Greek myths); Aeschylus – Oresteia; Africa – History 1960-; dialectic; contradiction
Rights: © by the author(s). This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Analogy and Difference
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Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana
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Manuele Gragnolati
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My paper will discuss Pasolini’s preference for the figure of contradiction and his opposition to Hegelian dialectics, as he understood it, from the perspective of multistable figures or Kippbilder. A Kippbild is a figure that oscillates between distinct aspects without mediation or synthesis. My basic questions are whether it is possible to read Pasolini’s insistence on contradictions in terms of multistable figures and what might be gained from such a reading.
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Vienna
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Turia + Kant
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2012
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Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Eumenides (Greek myths)
Aeschylus – Oresteia
Africa – History 1960-
dialectic
contradiction
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© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Manuele Gragnolati, ‘Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 119–33 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_07>
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119
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133
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The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 119–33
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Cite as:
Manuele Gragnolati, ‘Analogy and Difference: Multistable Figures in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Appunti per un’Orestiade Africana’, in The Scandal of Self-Contradiction: Pasolini’s Multistable Subjectivities, Geographies, Traditions, ed. by Luca Di Blasi, Manuele Gragnolati, and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Cultural Inquiry, 6 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012), pp. 119–33 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-06_07>