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Document and Abstraction
We are inverted utopians: while utopians cannot produce what they imagine, we cannot imagine what we produce. [more]
1. «We are inverted utopians: while utopians cannot produce what they imagine, we cannot imagine what we produce.» 2.1. «…from representative and informant to representation and information.» 2.2. «In the cinema the viewer is attracted by the image, in television the viewer is projected by the image.» 2.3. «When I am photographed, I feel like a hostage; I immediately pretend to be dead.» 3. «It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false.» 4.1. «In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality.» 4.2. «The picture, however, cannot represent its form of representation; it shows it forth.» 5. Media democracy
