The Life of the Image

• Authors: Auxier Randall E
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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 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.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-6

Dates

published

2020-04-15

Contributors

author

Auxier Randall E

• Department of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2020.0001