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 ### Line and Surface
 
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 If, then, we call the time involved in reading written lines “historical time,” we ought to call the time involved in reading pictures by a different name, because “history” has the sense of going somewhere, whereas, while reading pictures, we need go nowhere. The proof of this is simple: it takes many more minutes to describe what one has seen in a picture than it does to see it.
 
 #stone #image #video #3d
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 **However, the stone we have offered as an example is not really typical of our present situation. We can walk right up to a stone, but we can do nothing of the sort with most of the things that determine us at present— either the things that occur in explanations or the things that occurin images. The genetic information or the Vietnam War, or alpha particles, or Miss Bardot’s breasts are all examples. We may have no immediate experience of any of these kinds of things, but we are nonetheless determined by them. **
 
 #fiction #intro #facts #video #vertov
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 We must therefore ask how the various symbols of the world of fiction relate to their meanings. This shifts our problem to the structure of the media. If we take advantage of what was said in the first paragraph, we may answer the question as follows: Written lines relate their symbols to their meanings point by point (they “conceive” the facts they mean), while surfaces relate their symbols to their meanings by two-dimensional contexts (they “imagine” the facts they mean — if they truly mean facts and are not empty symbols). Thus, our situation provides us with two sorts of fiction: the conceptual and the imaginal; their relation to fact depends on the structure of the medium.
 
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 (We need no prophets to tell us that the “one-dimensional man” is disappearing.)
 
 
 
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 (We do not have a two-dimensional logic comparable in rigor and elaboration to linear Aristotelian logic.)
 
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 On the other hand, would it not be more sensible to say that the times involved in the two processes are different, and that their measurement in minutes fails to reveal this difference? If we accept this last statement, we may say that the reading of pictures takes less time because the moment in which their messages are received is denser; it is more compacted. It also opens up more quickly. If, then, we call the time involved in reading written lines “historical time,” we ought to call the time involved in reading pictures by a different name, because “history” has the sense of going
 
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 The sciences, and other articulations of linear thought such as poetry, literature, and music, are having increasing recourse to imaginal surface thinking; they are able to do so because of the technical advance of surface media. And, in a similar way, these surface media, including painting, graphics, and posters, are having increasing recourse to linear thought, and they can do so because their own technical advance permits it. Although
 
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  ### Codified World
  
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 The red traffic light means “Stop!” and the obnoxious green of peas means “Buy me!” This explosion of colors means something.
 
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 The fact that humankind is being programmed by surfaces (images) should not be considered a revolutionary piece of news. On the contrary, it apparently signifies a return to a primitive origin. Before the invention of writing, images were a decisive means of communication. Because most codes are ephemeral, such as the spoken word, gestures, and song, we are dependent on images to decipher the meaning that man has given both his deeds and his suffering from the time of Lascaux to the time of Mesopotamian tiles.
 
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 The difference between old and new magic can be summarized as follows: Prehistoric magic is ritualization of models known as myths; current magic is a ritualization of
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 ## Walter Benjamin
 
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 History decays into images, not into stories.
 Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 476.
 
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 ## [[Vachek]]
 
 "Já si nemyslím, že film má bejt nějakej virtuální svět, ve kterým se ztotožníte s hrdinou a projdete s ním až do konce a tím příběhem se všechno řekne" -#
 
 
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 ## [[Ted Nelson]]
 
 ### Neologisms
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 > So when you're praised for "logical thinking", it means you've absorbed a paradigm and can now step through it like the person who is praising you.
 >![](https://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/noLogicalThinking.JPG)
 
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 ## Aby [[Warburg]]
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 There were other problems that made the work on the Atlas an infinite endeavour. Warburg was a technophile. He was interested in telecommunication, the press and travelling; all these new technologies enabled new forms of travelling, but also prolonged the old idea of migration that connected civilizations from the beginning. _Technology_, for example in the form of printing,was also the direct link between Dürer’s engravings and the 28 telephones in his avant-garde library building. He had already written an article entitled „Airship and submarine in medieval imagination“ that suggested that former societies had anticipated what he called “vehicles of thought” and imagination that we dispose of today. Images were their vehicles.
 
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 Every memory, no matter how private it may be, even the memory of events to
 which we were the only witness, the memory of thoughts and inexpressible
 feelings, is linked to a whole collection of notions that many others possess ...
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 ## The Absopton of Expressive
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 However, to the extent that this encouragement proceeded as a mne-
 mic function, in other words, had already been reformed once before by
 art using preexisting forms, the act of restitution remained positioned
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 ## Dziga Vertov
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 Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.
 
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 Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.
 
 ## Eisenstein
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 ― [Timothy Leary](https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-leary) (1920-1996)
 
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