truth – Marco Montalto

The light of the body is the eye

It is impossible to know anything. Knowledge is a chimera. If it wasn’t for the textbook in front of you, you wouldn’t have even come to know the brain. The brain is an excellent example; the quintessential example of a model modelled on a model modelled to model one into a model thinking agent. The…

My Blood is the Law

By: montaltomarco September 23, 2023September 23, 2023

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Memory is the hallucination; Memory is untruth. Whatever. Memory is always, always! symbolic. If you remember it, then it did not happen. Never tell someone that s/he is following a red herring inside the courts of law. Bad joke. You remember picking an orange. The orange is a symbol. And so is the memory itself.…

The Sea is a State

The photograph obtained through the analogue photography apparatus is an abstraction. The photograph obtained through the digital photography apparatus is a further abstraction. Realities (in this case, digital), such as social media, aim at reinserting these abstractions into a space-time continuum, which is yet another abstraction. (The digital, just like the physical snapshot photo album…

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…

Ego sum, Ego existo

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…

What time is it? It’s Time

The photograph has no time. Paintings are in Time as extended by labor. The photograph has no time. It makes sense, therefore, to say that Being is or has time as long as it is lost within the time of Memory, a time indefinitely prolonged by making itself indicate nothing other than itself, that is,…

Boxes

The truth is that which happens. Everything that happens happens. But about something which has already happened, one can always say that that which happened to happen, then, happened to happen, then, only in the mind. But who is to say that that was not the way in which that which happened to happen, then,…

Between the lines and the sheets

My Being is for Time to affect itself. I can pretend it is the same for the Other. One way of describing the manner through which Time affects itself would be something like: “This took x minutes to complete.” One would have very well said the same thing had one stated: “Once upon a time…”…

𝑦=25+2𝑥

By: montaltomarco November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

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Perception utters, “It must be because it is what it is!” Memory replies, “It must be because it was what it was, and what was was, hence is.” Put the onus on memory, and memory cannot see. Put the onus on perception, and perception cannot know. Perception utters, “It is so because what is cannot…

Addio, teorema

We take a photograph. Or maybe we are still deciding on whether we ought to take the photograph. The subject or event we are in want of photographing, we photograph, or ideate about whether to photograph, because the subject or event we are in want of photographing impinges upon consciousness (sometimes without us paying much…