Baroque They will be ashes, but they will make sense

Baroque ethos and anachronisms of images

Abstract

This paper starts from the question of ‘the historical’ of the baroque ethos as Bolívar Echeverría formulated it. The dialectic between ‘the Baroque’ and ‘the baroque’ is taken up again with the intention of bringing the historical into the framework of structuralism and semiotics that for decades has dominated the question. To this end, we concentrate on Didi-Huberman's relationship between anachronism as the key to all historiographical enunciation and image, as a third party in the struggle between the real and the symbolic, between use and accumulation. Our proposal is thus to redirect the baroque problem to the terrain of an anthropology of images, something that was latent in its main theoreticians since Lezama Lima, Walter Benjamin, Severo Sarduy or Gilles Deleuze.