Sensing the World - An Anthropology of the Senses. - David Le breton
'the penetration of the eye into every sphere has continued unabated, as the current status of the image reveals'
According to Jacques Ellul, up until the 1960's images were often illustrations accompanying a text.
Words prevailed and the image was a support, 'the information age is embodied in the eye' Ivan Illich 2004
Our sight is now set less on the world than on the countless images that populated screens of every sort.
The world is increasingly reduced to images, making media the PRINCIPLE VECTOR of everyday life.
'When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings - dynamic figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behaviour. Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: The most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society.' Debord 2014
Images supplant the real and call into question the status of the original.
Our society is witnessing a hypertrophy of the visual, in which the copy takes precedence over the original - which has no value beyond that?
'the penetration of the eye into every sphere has continued unabated, as the current status of the image reveals'
According to Jacques Ellul, up until the 1960's images were often illustrations accompanying a text.
Words prevailed and the image was a support, 'the information age is embodied in the eye' Ivan Illich 2004
Our sight is now set less on the world than on the countless images that populated screens of every sort.
The world is increasingly reduced to images, making media the PRINCIPLE VECTOR of everyday life.
'When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings - dynamic figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behaviour. Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminence once occupied by touch: The most abstract and easily deceived sense is the most readily adaptable to the generalized abstraction of present-day society.' Debord 2014
Images supplant the real and call into question the status of the original.
Our society is witnessing a hypertrophy of the visual, in which the copy takes precedence over the original - which has no value beyond that?