Sur les potentialités politiques du montage : Godard, Benjamin et l’élaboration d’une "critique de la violence" = On the political potential of montage: Godard, Benjamin and the development of a "critique of violence"

Already described and investigated as a reflection on the history of the twentieth century, the art of Jean-Luc Godard forces us to conceive the practice of montage as a ceaseless juxtaposition of different places and historical events. This article focuses on a sequence from the Histoire(s) du cinéma, investigating the political implications of an anachronistic and anatopistic montage. Developing along this path is a dynamic of relaunches and overlaps between the thought of Walter Benjamin and the cinematic work of Godard.