Scattered Notes on Sadean Images

Abstract

We work the Sadean image’s problem as condensers of diferent issues. First, as reverberations of a sensible way; that is, flashes that occur during reading that make them recognizable and nameable and that have a transtemporal and transterritorial consistency. Second, they show tensions regarding sex, gender, feminist and cultural devices in dissimilar temporalities. Third, as dispersions of heterogeneities that, however, constellate. This supposes a method of reading and writing that notices and inscribes their ephemeral flashes, without a linear relationship in time and, in turn, without a progressive and univocal argumentation, but cut and reverberant, where a reflection on the image is produced in itself and where Sadean images from various temporal-spatial contexts are analyzed, in an ephemeral way, as different notes that are linked during reading.