A History of Waves: In Praise of Jean-Luc Godard
The history of cinema is a history of waves.
An elegy for the late Godard in the form of a fragmented short essay; with Gass, Rancière, Daney, and Twombly. Out now on my Substack.
"Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship. God: noise in the street: very peripatetic. Space: what you damn well have to see. Through spaces smaller than red globules of man's blood they creepycrawl after Blake's buttocks into eternity of which this vegetable world is but a shadow. Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past."
—James Joyce, Ulysses
Confounding and mildly infuriating. The statement in the title is commendable, but its exclamation point should be shifted after the word "Palestine"—because Palestine is not yet free.
What are we to make of this film’s emboldened declaration when the camera focuses not on the flying of a Palestinian flag, but of the l’Unifolié? Even though tensions may have grown in recent weeks, the Canadian government remains an ally of the Zionist entity. When Jasper Johns was painting the American flag…
