![]() ![]() We see man disappearing from the representations of art, but it was never there. To deconstruct our sense of historicity and ideology is to look at the images and see the aspects that made them. We realize the loss of the center, but it was never there. ![]() The process of realizing the absence and the play of substitution at the heart of our philosophy and language produces an interesting thought about how we can perceive this process in the image: “War is declared, not only on man and nature, but on light, on the intellect and on composition” (Sedlmayr, 1957, p.159). The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the play of signification infinitely” (2001, p. The humanist philosophy is well constructed in the images and representations about the human in the history of art. The crisis that Hans Sedlmayr identifies in the representation of man through art as a loss of the center and language reminds the thought in Derrida about our metaphysical construction of language: “A system in which the central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The Posthuman approach understands that the so-called human is much more a construct than a given. ![]()
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