{"id":70682,"date":"2026-02-19T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=70682"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:44:39","slug":"images-never-stand-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/images-never-stand-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Images Never Stand Still"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can an image move? Or is not an image precisely that which only appears at the very end, as a kind of condensation of its movement? Condensation would then mean it is moving ever more slowly towards a final standstill. The figures in mythology were once movement. When we awoke, they became figures. Every imagination is like a deprivation. Only in the heavens can the gods and goddesses still draw near and recede again, as if in a dance. Lilith, once the moon goddess in the sky, was a mighty and beautiful movement between the Earth and the Sun. She waxed and waned. But who still looks to the heavens when it comes to images?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G2026_26_Web_21-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70211\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G2026_26_Web_21-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G2026_26_Web_21-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G2026_26_Web_21-770x1001.jpg 770w, https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G2026_26_Web_21.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Burney relief, also known as the Queen of the Night relief. Mesopotamian deity, presumably a representation of Ishtar. Terracotta, Sumer, ca. 1950 BC. British Museum, London. Photo: Gennadii Saus i Segura, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A friend is attempting to make a film out of something Simone Weil wrote. In the text, she is dancing, and he tries to translate that into images. Each image is a \u201cstill\u201d derived from the movement, which makes it imaginable. Now he wants to bring them back into movement. Each image is given a number. \u201cWhat if we were to only take number eight?\u201d Things vary a bit, but the images don&#8217;t move. They become paler and paler. Is there a heaven somewhere where images move again? Move from within themselves and not from our imaginations, in which we have trapped them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of her prologue to <em>Br\u00fccken zum \u00dcbernat\u00fcrlichen<\/em> [Bridges to the Supernatural], Simone Weil writes: \u201cAnd yet, deep within me, a part of me cannot help but think, trembling and shaking with fear, that he might love me after all.\u201d A heaven opens up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can an image move? Or is not an image precisely that which only appears at the very end, as a kind of condensation of its movement? Condensation would then mean it is moving ever more slowly towards a final standstill. The figures in mythology were once movement. When we awoke, they became figures. Every imagination is like a deprivation. Only in the heavens can the gods and goddesses still draw near and recede again, as if in a dance. Lilith, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9155,"featured_media":70210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8793],"tags":[11756,11757,8819],"class_list":["post-70682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-6-2026-en","tag-english-issue-8-2026","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70687,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70682\/revisions\/70687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}