Abstract

MOLINA BAREA, María del Carmen. “Noli me Legere”: The Resurrection of the Haptic Image. En-clav. pen [online]. 2025, vol.19, n.38, pp.198-217.  Epub July 04, 2025. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i38.737.

This paper takes as a starting point the essay entitled Noli me legere (2007) by the Spanish philosopher and art critic José Luis Brea. Taking this piece of work as the main reference, the paper explores, from an argumentative stance, the logic of the parergon within deconstruction, which tempts this methodology to stay outside the painting and frame the image inside a logocentric representation without touching its interior, thus unabling the painting to speak its truth in its own language. From a procedural point of view, the paper follows the path laid out by Brea, which consists of a critical review of Derridian deconstruction that is requested to abadon the metaphysics of presence in the visual realm, as well as to deconstruct itself from the inside. The paper develops these objectives by means of expanding the “Noli me legere” paradigm, coined by Brea, also tracing its implications through the “Noli me tangere” metaphor, investigated by Jean-Luc Nancy. Tactility within the pictorial representation of the encounter between the Risen Christ and Mary Magdalene becomes the central theme of the paper and the basement of its theoretic contribution, which proposes a haptic approach to images in order to fulfill the command “Do not read me!”. The paper concludes this alternative throughout a case study taken from Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998).

Keywords : deconstruction; painting; Noli me tangere; haptic cinema; Godard.

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