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W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology and Picture Theory
What is an image? What is picture? Rather, what is the relationship between image and idea, image and word, the visual and the verbal, or the visible and the sayable? What is the relation of pictures and language? Is the one superior to the other, or each of them belongs to the different realm? The… »
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle
It is not so usual to meet an author who engages himself in a single theme explaining everything about it even by focusing on its negative aspects. Among others, there is Nietzsche who spent his whole life in criticizing dominant culture of his era. In a sense, Debord’s fragmented… »
Barthes - Camera Lucida / Baudrillard - “It is the Object Which Thinks Us…”
- Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Camera Lucida (1980) was written after his mother’s death and published just after his death. Although, like Mythologies (1957), this book could be regarded as a critique of the myth of bourgeois culture, he seems to turn his political critiques to more or less private investigations of the… »
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