THE IMAGE AND ITS POSTMODERN ONTOLOGIZATION
THE IMAGE AND ITS POSTMODERN ONTOLOGIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The present study shows that the main theories in postmodernism regarding the image are based on re-evaluations of same concept which was previously issued by Bergson or Sartre. The ontologization of the image in postmodernism consists of a reconceptualization of the image which is fueled by a resentment barely disguised towards subjectivity and intentionality, these two being regarded as directly associated with the idea of image representation. Thus, postmodernism no longer considers the image as an extension of subjectivity, but an access to pure consciousness. Image is considered an event, meaning that there is a possibility of something to happen even there is a high chance of nothing else to happen. As a sum up of postmodernist thinking represented here by Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze we drew up an axis of veridicity where the real, the imaginary, the simulacrum and the hyperreal are lined up and where the real is a material illusion of the world, belonging to subjectivity, the imaginary represents an imperfection inside the real, above the real and above simulation which degenerates into hyperreal, the simulacrum is a derealization of the world and the hyperreal seduces and creates an illusion or an illusion of the illusion of the real.

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