“Poetry of Things Subject not to Last Longer”: Antipodes to Contemporary Death?
The staging of death originally based on the symbolic mastery of an “odd” event that happens on its own terms. Through the exploration of the “retaining” theme, this control is examined under three of its evolutionary meanings which can nevertheless be experienced in contemporaneity : 1) emotional ambivalence ritually recognized face up the human personification of death; 2) the phenomenon of discreet “mourning”, if in excess private form, would contribute to the vagaries of unbridled emotion, through various movements such media coverage of famous people and show the layout of violent death, which are not without effect on the modalities of dying process and currently rituals; 3) in the name of the distinction of the individual, technological mastery of the image that engages in the “retention” of the death, from three examples. Thus, slides in turns, death increases in “style”. But the question lies in what it loses more or less of its “autonomy”, being subject to defensive methods that would make it acceptable, if not pleasant.