Between logos and doxa: The Intelligence of a Machine

• Authors: German A. Duarte
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with Parmenides of Elea’s way of inquiry about reality and the opposition emerging from it. In more detail, it analyses how Parmenides’ concepts of logos and doxa present some analogies with Bergson’s thoughts about duration and Time and how these theories influenced the understanding of visual media, especially the cinematographic camera. This survey will allow us to demonstrate that some scientific theories about space that accompanied the development of the cinematographic camera progressively allowed for the birth of a new understanding of this device. In the last section of this study, we will then focus on the way through which the film camera - understood as an intelligent device - passes from the sphere of doxa to the sphere of logos.

Keywords

EN

Media History; Henri Bergson; Philosophy; Non-Euclidean Geometries; Film Studies

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113-134

Dates

published

2016-03-01

online

2016-04-20

Contributors

author

German A. Duarte

• Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Columbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/hssr-2016-0007