What makes those images so powerful is that it is only of relative minor relevance for the stabilization of such images whether they actually capture and correspond with the multiple layers of reality, or not." - David Leupold, sociologist By doing so such axiomatic images tell us what we shall desire (liberalism, in a snapshot: the crunchy honey-flavored cereals and the freshly-pressed orange juice in the back of a suburban one-family home) and from what we shall obstain (communism, in a snapshot: lifeless crowds of men and machinery marching towards certain perdition accompanied by the tunes of Soviet Russian songs). "What makes them so powerful is that they circumvent the faculties of the conscious mind but, instead, directly target the subconscious and affective, thus evading direct inquiry through contemplative reasoning. Images perpetuated in public education, media as well as popular culture have a profound impact on the formation of such mental images: Different scholars of psychoanalysis as well as the social sciences such as Slavoj Žižek and Jan Berger have pointed out the possibility of manipulating mental images for ideological purposes. For example, Sigmund Freud claimed to have dreamed purely in aural-images of dialogs. The subject of an image need not be real it may be an abstract concept, such as a graph, function, or imaginary entity.
A fixed image, also called a hard copy, is one that has been recorded on a material object, such as paper or textile by photography or any other digital process.Ī mental image exists in an individual's mind, as something one remembers or imagines. This may be a reflection of an object by a mirror, a projection of a camera obscura, or a scene displayed on a cathode ray tube. In this wider sense, images can also be rendered manually, such as by drawing, the art of painting, carving, rendered automatically by printing or computer graphics technology, or developed by a combination of methods, especially in a pseudo-photograph.Ī volatile image is one that exists only for a short period of time. The word 'image' is also used in the broader sense of any two-dimensional figure such as a map, a graph, a pie chart, a painting or a banner. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or water. They may be captured by optical devices – such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Images may be two or three- dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram.
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