The Life of the Image
Preview: Bergson noted that the cinematographic image does not really move. It is, then as now, a series of still photographs. The real motion in such images is produced by machinery, which imparts a kinesis, an energy of movement, to the succession of fixed images. Our perception then endows such...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Warsaw
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture |
| Online Access: | http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/the-life-of-the-image/ |
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Bergson noted that the cinematographic image does not really move. It is, then as now, a series of still photographs. The real motion in such images is produced by machinery, which imparts a kinesis, an energy of movement, to the succession of fixed images. Our perception then endows such images with their “life,” insofar as they can be said to possess life. It is an illusion, it is “virtual” both as space and time. The real duration, as generated by the machinery or as lived by the perceiver is part of a broader system of images that includes those still photographs and their succession. Images of images of images, by the time they are processed by our bodies and appear to our mind’s eye as inhibited acts we have not enacted. |
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| ISSN: | 2544-302X 2544-302X |