Human Flow: pass through whatever it takes

Abstract

Starting from the little-known essay by Hannah Arendt on refugees and the theoretical improvements by Giorgio Agamben on the subject, as well as the exposition on the hospitality by Jacques Derrida, the article will propose from Human Flow (2017), film directed by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, exercise a historical, theoretical and morphological point of view on the images recorded in various refugee camps, images that end up expelling to our visual field an uncontested violence against so many human lives and whose "authorities" of the host countries of these immense flows of people reveals, at the same time, by the cruelty and indifference, the infirmity of our human condition and the annihilation of the whole idea of hospitality - there where the genealogy of Europe and of the world is absolutely denied when it comes to perceiving the refugee no longer as a Foreigner, but as an enemy, as a hostile being.