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Zitat: ‘ex-ist’

Images are mediations between the world and human beings. Human beings ‘ex-ist’, i.e. the world is not immediately accessible to them and therefore images are needed to make it comprehensible. However, as soon as this happens, images come between the world and human beings. They are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: Instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings’ lives finally become a function of the images they create.

Vilem Flusser, towards a philosophy of photography, 1983

Posted by HH, 19. Jan 2019
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Zitat: Black Box

It is true that with technical images another factor places itself between them and their significance, i.e. a camera and a human being operating it (for example, a photographer), but it does not look as if this ‘machine/operator’ complex would break the chain between image and significance. On the contrary: The significance appears to flow into the complex on the one side
(input) in order to flow out on the other side (output), during which the process – what is going on within the complex – remains concealed: a ‘black box’ in fact.

Vilem Flusser, towards a philosophy of photography, 1983

Posted by HH, 19. Jan 2019
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