poetry | photography | philosophy
Text is a symbol, symbolically standing for the latent image. Hence the reason why the symbol cannot be indexical. It is the latent image which is indexical, consistently indexing memory; and needlessly so, being itself memory, which comes from/is the world. The image is always iconic, bearing resemblance to the index, which indexes nothing but…
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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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All modes of representation are symbolic containers, symbolically containing the world. The world instates itself as it is. How beautiful one’s existence when nothing matters. Like Dasein, ‘the photographic’ only matters when it matters. Featured Image: Untitled (from personal project Dirty Paradise: in search of a lost photograph). Photographed May 2019 at Marsa and April…
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The human eye does not always see in the same way that the photography apparatus sees (here by the term photography apparatus we mean its common iterations, such as film cameras, medium format cameras, DSLR cameras, mirrorless cameras, bridge cameras, compact digital cameras, smartphone cameras, action cameras, etc.). I can be shown an image of…
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The brain is a model. A visual percept is an internal representation of an external phenomenon. There is no such thing as an internal percept of an internal phenomenon. An internal percept is inside; it being inside, it is inside. An internal representation of an internal phenomenon is an internal representation. That internal representation is…
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The originary is the origin. There is nothing beyond the origin. Place yourself at a desk facing an open window. Put blank paper in front of you and take hold of a pencil. Start drawing the scene appearing outside the open window that is facing you. Set yourself an infinite amount of time to complete…
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A memory is no different from a representation. A memory can be indistinguishable from an artefact – a thing done with craft. When the fool looks at the pointing finger, when, that is, we question the very act of remembering, the punctum – the alterity – of the memory strikes. The pointing finger, remembering, points…
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Why differentiate between will and free will? The statement “out of my own free will” is a linguistic convention we may make use of; and we may do so, to presuppose (and therefore solidly suppose) the actuality of the linguistic convention “of before origin.” But there is nothing before origin. Therefore, “even if there didn’t…
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The number zero is the only true invention. The human, the inventor of the number zero, happens to be a creature (but is not necessarily the sole creature) that can understand the concept of the number zero and its most direct offspring: the ratio scale. With the advent of this remarkable invention, everything could be…
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As corroborated by the Book of Genesis, the notion of poverty came to be the day Dasein felt the need to manifest its realness to itself, that is to say that poverty defined itself as such on the very day Dasein appeared to itself as Dasein. First problem experienced: If Man exists, it’s his problem.…
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