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title = "Mediating Difference"
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glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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2024-05-19 12:31:09 -07:00
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From :
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> For the *noeme* "That-has-been" was possible only on the day when a
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> scientific circumstance (the discovery that silver halogens were sensitive to
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> light) made it possible to recover and print directly the luminous rays
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> emitted by a variously lighted object. The photography is literally an
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> emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed
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> radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here.
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The transmission of information through space is the mirroring of difference
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through space and time. A picture captures the difference apparent through
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color and location on the projective plane so that it can be re-transmitted in
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a different place. Hence, the medium of photography is a form of transmission
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of a set of differences legible to its technical mechanism of capture.
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Analogously, the phonograph is a means of transmission of sound
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waves—differences in distribution of particles in the air. The technical means
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of capturing some difference determines what subset of all difference is
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legible to be transmitted.
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