Script

The eyes cannot see numbers or letters of the alphabet, only their glyphs. A 1-bit image would do away with sub-pixels and interpolation.   There are no gradients in the pixel. The world can be reduced to numbers, quanta, but Man cannot see these, only understand them. And Man needs the machine to rerender the…

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Homage to Daphne

Words can be transmitted through sound or they can be transmitted through writing. As sounds or as written signs, words are invariably read. As sounds, they are read and understood by being heard by our hearing apparatus; heard words are heard by our ears that hear, and thereafter understood by simply having been heard by…

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Manicure

Love does not care for Being. If the Being known as Dasein is defined as care (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if “the ontological meaning of ‘care’ is temporality” (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if temporality situates in the world (HEIDEGGER 1962:416), and if “the ontological constitution of the world […] must then likewise be grounded in temporality” (HEIDEGGER…

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Umano, troppo umano, ovvero la nascita dell’amore: una nuova fotografia

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’ (Plath 1-5) Ontology is merely the symptom. Alterity holds no sway over visual perception. The eyes strip the otherwise…

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