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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2020

The screen shared live

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In her essay "Faces as Commons," American political scientist Jodi Dean writes about how the exorbitant influence of images on mass-media digital platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter creates a "secondary visuality." 1 Meta-data, "likes" and clicks, algorhythmic calculations and a sort of data-behaviourism (Antoinette Rouvroy) contribute significantly to this secondary visuality, which only becomes visible-not as an image, but as data-when we look past the surface image. It makes the specificities of an individual image (its "primary visuality") disappear. Dean contextualises her thoughts in the mechanisms of what she calls "communicative capitalism," which transforms the knowledge of a specific image into capital in the form of generic data. "Secondary visuality" can hardly be visualised itself, but it is easily described: 6 June 2020, around 4:15 PM, Alexanderplatz, Berlin. The "Silent Demo" against racism in Berlin has been going on for over two hours, while hundreds of thousands more people demonstrate against fascism, police brutality and injustice around the world. Things are starting to wind down. Because there are so many people, it takes time for them all to reach the metro station (ill. 1).
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hal-03211039 , version 1 (05-05-2021)

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Doreen Mende. The screen shared live. Symposium: Goodbye Photomontage? John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Jun 2020, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-03211039⟩

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