CÂTEVA CONSIDERAŢII PRIVIND DESTINUL IMAGINII ÎN MODERNITATE
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE DESTINY OF IMAGE IN MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Some Reflections on the Destiny of Image in Modernity. The image's itinerary through history is closely dependent on the cultural context. This fact becomes even more obvious when one analyses the image's recent destiny. Self-reference is one of modernity's dominant traits, one easily identified among the characteristics of the image in media society. If from the point of view of semiotics there is a break of the natural connection between signified and signifier, in the case of the image already Jean-Luc Marion notices, already at the end of the ‘80s, that the image enjoys an ever greater independence from the reality it should represent. Modern image is supposed to be free from any original. This new status generates changes on the anthropological level, as G. Sartori warns. Consequently, a certain type of iconoclasm appears, one that attempts to bring the image back to its iconic state. And this means rediscovering the natural image-original ratio, following the kenotic model of the icon.

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