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| For Flusser, all images created by machines follow the logic of computation and calculation. They are mosaics, combinations of point-like elements – computed images, ultimately, that do not reflect the world but create models of it, tracing out opportunities for access and intervention. Aerial reconnaissance photos tell bomber pilots which targets to head for; surveillance images are supposed to identify dangerous situations in advance; photomicrographs and high-speed photographs prove or disprove theories by recording the traces of otherwise invisible events in scientific experiments. Flusser clearly saw that this operative aspect of technical images could not be reduced to representation. What he underestimated was the contingent nature of these images – and therefore the technological and institutional effort that has been expended for at least 150 years in order to make technical images fully calculable and integrated into operative processes. | For Flusser, all images created by machines follow the logic of computation and calculation. They are mosaics, combinations of point-like elements – computed images, ultimately, that do not reflect the world but create models of it, tracing out opportunities for access and intervention. Aerial reconnaissance photos tell bomber pilots which targets to head for; surveillance images are supposed to identify dangerous situations in advance; photomicrographs and high-speed photographs prove or disprove theories by recording the traces of otherwise invisible events in scientific experiments. Flusser clearly saw that this operative aspect of technical images could not be reduced to representation. What he underestimated was the contingent nature of these images – and therefore the technological and institutional effort that has been expended for at least 150 years in order to make technical images fully calculable and integrated into operative processes. | ||
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