Traditional aesthetics often conceptualizes images as representations of something else: an image refers back to a model, an object, or a reality it depicts. On the contrary, contemporary imaginal technologies as remote sensing are non-representational, they elude the distinction between an object and perception. They are not secondary to reality, they are real in themselves: they are signs, forces, intensities, that exist directly. The technosphere is traversed by these imaginal technologies that shape back all forms they interact with.
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Maximilian Schob