{"id":1313,"date":"2018-03-28T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2018-03-31T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T14:26:11","slug":"out-of-language-photographing-as-translating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1313","title":{"rendered":"Out of Language: Photographing as Translating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My essay for <em>The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory<\/em> traces Flusser&#8217;s engagement with photography&#8211;or more exactly, of his concern with the human-device mesh he called the apparatus. \u00a0The idea of photography as an alternative to language seems to have appeared about 1969 &#8212; before he left Brazil and returned to Europe to live. \u00a0The idea of communication requiring human consciousness to adapt to devices &#8212; with potential for both good and bad consequences &#8212; was clear by 1983&#8211;the publication of <em>F\u00fcr eine Philosophie der Fotografie<\/em>. \u00a0Photography \u00a0was the first \u00a0device to make such demands, the first &#8220;technical image&#8221;. \u00a0It was quickly supplemented by film, TV video and sound recording (the term &#8220;technical image&#8221; deserves closer attention, but sound recording does involve the requisite human-device &#8220;mesh&#8221;). \u00a0So photography comes to represent an historical break away from the kind of consciousness that is supported and shaped by writing &#8212; historical, critical consciousness. Photographs &#8220;translate&#8221; from this kind of consciousness &#8220;into the universe of technical images,&#8221; a new way human beings interact with the world and with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My essay for The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory traces Flusser&#8217;s engagement with photography&#8211;or more exactly, of his concern with the human-device mesh he called the apparatus. \u00a0The idea of photography as an alternative&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,219,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flusser","category-functionary","category-photography"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}