I used to think that more people making images would necessarily lead to more conscious image reception, but I’m less sure of that now. It seems that it’s possible to make images as unconsciously as one consumes them, bypassing the critical sense entirely.
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Photographic images used to be about the trace. Digital images are about the flow.
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So the two processes – private image-making and public image reception – have become fused.
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the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech.
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It has led to more docile citizens, who spend more of their time in the collection and sorting of images and information … and less time on analysis, critical thinking, or real «socialising».
David Levi Strauss > Hier.
14. April 2007 19:09 Uhr. Kategorie Design. Keine Antwort.
