Showing an image

« The impossible demand to start the revolution everywhere at once is replaced by the statement that communication is possible only at the moment when everyone changes places: when the individual loses herself or himself in the effort of showing an image to someone else. » Colin MacCabe, « On Godard », 1980, in Colin MacCabe, Godard. Images, Sounds, Politics (Bloomington, Indiana, University Press, 1980, p. 153