Abstract

The text considers the possibility of a mediatic historiography, that is, a form of historiographic writing in which the media, in this case images, participate. The central object of investigation is the strategy of reenactment that is traditionally regarded as a means of eventorientated historiography. Contemporary art has recently questioned these strategies and proposed to replace the totalizing or globalizing approach of history and historiography with a more fragmentary and critical perspective. On the backdrop of Michel Foucault’s methodological reflections on history that he develops in Archeology of Knowledge, the text analyzes different forms of a politics of history of the images through three examples of reenactment taken from film, theatre and the fine arts.