Truth, audiovisual narrative and journalism: a critical approach from Philosophy

Abstract

Our paper tries to consider the way in which the contemporary philosophy has propose a debate between the relations of audiovisual journalism and the nature of truth of the images. For that, we defend that we can trace a process between the questioning of the language (written, and after that, audiovisual), which matches with the tools and methods that the philosophy of the suspicion applied over concepts like “objectivity” or “fact”, relevant issues in the common practice of the journalism. We will trace a path between the different contributions developed since the formulation of the aristotelian apophantic enunciations (denials or variables) to the contemporary state of the question, putting special relevance in the problematic of the language developed by Martin Heidegger and the subsequent crisis (and reconstruction) experienced in the audiovisual system of beliefs, focusing on authors like Didi-Huberman or Hito Steyerl