Spectres of the Imagination: A Post-Phenomenological Perspective on the Filmic Image and its Uses:

Dario Cecchi

doi:10.60923/issn.2280-9481/21452

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Dario Cecchi University of Roma La Sapienza

Dario Cecchi is Tenure Track Researcher in Aesthetics at Sapienza University of Rome (Philosophy Department). He was visiting scholar at EHESS, Paris, and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. His last book is entitled L’esperienza dell’altro. Vedere, narrare, immaginare (Quodlibet 2025). His interests range from post-Kantian (Arendt, Garroni, Lyotard) philosophy and pragmatist aesthetics (Dewey) to the response theory (Iser, Jauss), with a special focus on cinema, images and new media.

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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2280-9481/21452

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Derrida, Stiegler, Spectrality of images, Imagination, American Jewish cinema

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The article reconsiders the joint development of a theory of the moving images by Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Their theory highlights the spectrality of moving images, and formulates a hypothesis about its meaning for the filmic experience. This meaning has especially to do with the way imagination elaborates the sense of images flowing on the screen: it is an effect of the work of imagination synthesizing the visual experience, and not a “special effect” added to a special genre of movies. Filmmakers make accordingly specters appear on the screen as a signature of their reflection upon the action of imagination through the filmic narration.

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