diff --git a/content/shard/mediating-difference.md b/content/shard/mediating-difference.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d01387e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/mediating-difference.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ ++++ +title = "Mediating Difference" +glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"] ++++ + +From ![](bib:37c422ce-c86e-40ff-a4d6-275d7e24a9300): + +> For the *noeme* "That-has-been" was possible only on the day when a +> scientific circumstance (the discovery that silver halogens were sensitive to +> light) made it possible to recover and print directly the luminous rays +> emitted by a variously lighted object. The photography is literally an +> emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed +> radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here. + +The transmission of information through space is the mirroring of difference +through space and time. A picture captures the difference apparent through +color and location on the projective plane so that it can be re-transmitted in +a different place. Hence, the medium of photography is a form of transmission +of a set of differences legible to its technical mechanism of capture. +Analogously, the phonograph is a means of transmission of sound +waves—differences in distribution of particles in the air. The technical means +of capturing some difference determines what subset of all difference is +legible to be transmitted. \ No newline at end of file