Melancholy constellations: Benjamin, Kiefer, Kentridge and the play of mourning

Melancholy constellations: Benjamin, Kiefer, Kentridge and the play of mourning

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Intended as a summation as well as a continuation of several studies on the work of Walter Benjamin, Anselm Kiefer, and William Kentridge, this article proposes to configure Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge in and as a melancholy constellation."Melancholy constellation" serves here as a theoretical construct of the mobile concepts with which Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge "preposterously" think and perform the Assessment of Supply Water Quality Using GIS Tool for Selected Locations in Delhi—A Case Study imaging of history.On the basis of these mobile concepts, I shall also refer to my theoretical concept of melancholy constellation as a mobile constellation.Furthermore, while melancholia traditionally signifies a state of acedia or immobility, its historical image will be shown to be dialectical -signifying both black bile and inspiration; always involving mobile positions.

The dialectics of melancholia will be related to the dialectics of melancholy writing, which in turn is enfolded with my discussion of the performative self-reflexivity at play in the work of A Practical Method for Blind Pixel Detection for the Push-Broom Thermal-Infrared Hyperspectral Imager Benjamin, Kiefer, and Kentridge.