Counter-Sights and Counter-Times

In his lecture accompanying the exhibition *The Opposite of Now* and in the subsequent discussion with literary scholar Sigrid Weigel, he goes on to explore what significance political allegory can have today.

Georges Didi-Huberman is a French philosopher and art historian whose research encompasses the visual arts, art historiography, psychoanalysis, the human sciences and philosophy. He has been teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 1990. He has published numerous works on the history and theory of images, ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary art. In 2020, he was awarded the Aby Warburg Prize by the City of Hamburg.

Sigrid Weigel is a scholar of literature and cultural studies. She was the long-standing director of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research and has taught at, amongst others, the University of Hamburg, the University of Zurich, the Technical University of Berlin and Princeton University. Her research lies at the intersection of literature, the history of knowledge and science, visual studies, psychoanalysis and political theory. She has received numerous honorary doctorates and awards, including the City of Hamburg’s Aby Warburg Prize in 2016.

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