Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

"flash up"

Spanish translation:

aparecen como destellos

Added to glossary by Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Aug 4, 2009 13:16
14 yrs ago
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English term

photographs "flash up"

English to Spanish Other Philosophy
For Sontag, photographs render truths in a dissociated moment; they "flash up" in a Benjaminian sense, and so provide only fragmented or dissociated imprints of reality.

Confieso no haber leído a Sontag ni a Benjamin. Pero ¿hace falta para traducir "flash up"?
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Aug 5, 2009 23:36: Beatriz Ramírez de Haro Created KOG entry

Aug 5, 2009 23:37: Beatriz Ramírez de Haro changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/669496">Beatriz Ramírez de Haro's</a> old entry - " "flash up""" to ""aparecen como destellos // aparecen fugazmente""

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aparecen como destellos (fugaces) // aparecen fugazmente

Walter Benjamin and the Corpus of Autobiography -
de Gerhard Richter - 2002 - Literary Criticism - 312 páginas
Similarly, in his 1931 "Doctrine of the Similar" Benjamin speaks of "similarities" that "flash up fleetingly from the stream of things only in order to ...

Aquí está el sentido de "flash up":
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=736746
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