Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory - Lambert Wiesing - Google Books

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These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible, released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his…