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Jacques Rancière responded to Godard’s remark in a 2007 interview in Artforum: “To say that, in the dominant regime of representation, documentary is for the Palestinians,” he argued, “is to say that they can only offer the bodies of their victims to the gaze of news cameras or to the compassionate gaze at their suffering. That is, the world is divided between those who can and those who cannot afford the luxury of playing with words and images. Subversion begins when this division is contested.”

Jacques Rancière responded to Godard’s remark in a 2007 interview in Artforum: “To say that, in the dominant regime of representation, documentary is for the Palestinians,” he argued, “is to say that they can only offer the bodies of their victims to the gaze of news cameras or to the compassionate gaze at their suffering. That is, the world is divided between those who can and those who cannot afford the luxury of playing with words and images. Subversion begins when this division is contested.”

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