Benjamin Slavík
(Department of Aesthetics, Charles University of Prague)
Abstract:
The first part of the proposed paper introduces new comments on D.N. Rodowick´s conception of digital image, as it´s presented in his two influential books Virtual life of the Film (2007) and What Philosophy Wants from Images (2018). Each of these books proposes a different perspective; the first one is more pessimistic, the second one is rather optimistic. While in Virtual Life of the Film Rodowick states that the digital image is a symptom and an event of looses of a fixed meaning of the outside world, which was put before apparatus, in What Philosophy Wants from Images he introduces digital image as a medium of new possibilities. Digital image is no more a medium of representation, because its surface provides a deeper cascade of its medial memory. The second conception intoduces notion of new image in the age of digital: the digital image is neither represential, nor meaningless; its new-meaning is rather stored in his own memory, which is unstable and disseminative. The second part of the proposed paper focuses on the problem of perception of the digital image, which is inspired by Deleuze´s non-represential notion of the affect. In case of the new image, we deal more with an affective event than with a purely meaning-based image. While affective sensation remains in the image, image´s fixed-meaning disappears, Finally, the paper points out that the digital – cinematographic, photographic or multi-medial – technology may not be a mere attraction; it can provide a kind of a new experience of the medial memory and an aesthetic feeling of the event.
Benjamin Slavík is graduate student of The Film studies department at Charles University of Prague. In currently student of Aesthetics at the same university. Author of study “Play of shifts, diffractions, discontinuities and ruptures. Seijun Suzuki’s film sign seen from philosophical perspective of Jacquese Derrida” (2018). He works on following researsch topics: relationships between Jacques Derrida’s and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference, post-structuralism film theory, german medial philosophy, medial archeology and philosophy of affect. He will attend Derrida et la Technologie / Derrida and Technology conference in Paris (2.-4. 5. 2019).