Abstract
This series of reflections explores historical experiences of disruption and migration through the self-elegy of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the memoir of German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Darwish and Benjamin both lived diasporic lives and adhered to a notion of truth as an aural phenomenon. This work takes the performed poem and the told story as sites to explore the suspension and reemergence of memories, termed imagistic precipitates of experience, as expressed through the sentiments of longing and love. According to Benjamin, images hold smells, visions, gestures, and sound-forms. This essay asks if images can indeed be heard. Additionally, it asks if images are a language and, if so, what are its expressive characters? This essay seeks to address what images as a language might enable or permit by invoking anthropologist Lisa Stevenson’s claim that images can shape forms of life.
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