RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Medieval University, Human Eye
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New technology is creating a different way of visualization. Human eye supplanted by practices in which visual images no longer have any reference to the position of an observer in a real, optimally perceived world . Camera isn"t pretending to have a point of view, it is obvious that the camera is not from the perspective of the human eye, but that of the camera on a drone or on a stick. Distance between the object and the observer. Crary is thinking about the ways the abstraction becomes more and more distance. Relates to benjamin from us the relentless of abstraction . Painting has aura because looking at we know that the painter touched it and brushed upon it, while photographs that can be mechanically reproduced and the aura is lost in the process.
