Abstract

CALLE-GRUBER, Mireille. The bias of Aletheia. Acta poét [online]. 2009, vol.30, n.2, pp.35-57. ISSN 2448-735X.

"The bias of Aletheia" tries to follow the trail of the text that Jacques Derrida wrote as a preface to Light of the Dark, a book of photographies from Kishin Shinoyama, a Japanese photographer, and his model, Shinobu Otake. Derrida's text is titled Aletheia, which, to begin, links the matter of truth to nudity, to the unveiling of a veil, and to erotism. But also, with the same gesture, it makes of the white and black photography of the feminine body, an allegory of the truth. To give the name of Aletheia to the silence of photography means to shift the discourse of certain occidental philosophy -metaphorical, metaphysical and heliocentrical-, that has the light of the truth. It also means to oppose a way of resistance by the deconstruction of those regards. To give the name of Aletheia is also to link the matter of truth to the questioning of the langue among languages: which allows the conversion of the metaphorical operation in a body of signs that works and it is worked. It is to propose the search in terms of relations and related things. It is to consider the text as the photographic account of writing and the philosopher, in debt with the shadow, as the one who regards his photographical death. Such are the elements of a trail of deconstruction, that puts optics into play by the haptic, Metaphor by Metaphrasis (over- phrase), that questions "the eyes of the langue". It touches the limits, explores the "logic of the limit" and the desire of desire of Aletheia. It strives not to decide and "to think in not seeing".

Keywords : Derrida; truth; photography.

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