Guest Lecture by Maria Stavrinaki

May 07, 2024

Film still from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La Rabbia. 1963. Source: Maria Stavrinaki. Stavrinaki, Maria. "Stupeur : commencement et fin de l’histoire De Pasolini à Leroi-Gourhan, c. 1950-1960". In La Part de L'Oeil. Revue d'arts plastiques. num. 35-36 (2021-22): 249-263.

The final session will analyse the reactivation of ‘prehistory’ in the post-war years. At that time, prehistory —its longue durée, its monuments, its shelters and its opaque symbolic language—offered the potential to think the nuclear and post-nuclear world. Philosophy, the human and social sciences, and art will be closely intertwined, revealing the transcendental functions of prehistory and its constant historicisation in specific material contexts.