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 Flusser calls “[s]ymbols that are linked to content [...] codes” (Into the Universe of Technical Images, p. 12). The term calls attention to a media specificity that applies equally to traditional and technical images, and that partly negates the difference between their respective ways of imagining: imagination (Imagination) and new imagination (Einbildungskraft). Images are not windows; they are “surfaces that translate everything into states of things” (Towards a Philosophy of Photography, p. 16). Here Flusser names an effect of two-dimensionality that enables the production of the new by means of relationships between things on a surface: “The act of photography [...] is a hunt for new states of things [...] for the improbable, for information” (ibid., p. 39); “new, informative states of things” (ibid., p. 59) are the result of a genuinely pictorial synoptics that constantly eludes describability.
+//Original article by Ulrich Richtmeyer//