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Karen Barad

According to atomistic metaphysics, space is a container and time is cut into successive fragments. The fact that we do not treat these assumptions as assumptions, or their effects as effects, is because we are used to atomistic metaphysics. We have always thought that the world was made of discrete objects and one-dimensional finalities, and interactions took place between individuals that pre-existed the exchanges. According to Karen Barad's (2007) agential ontology, or rather ethico-onto-epistemology, "individuals" do not pre-exist as such, but rather materialise in the event of intra-action. Bodies are not objects with inherent boundaries and properties, they are discursive material phenomena. Barad's concept of intra-action is central to developing a new understanding of the whole visual image and materiality beyond the limitations of traditional realism (positivism) and linguisticism.

reference

“end of semiotics” (Leone, 2015)

https://www.academia.edu/11425425/2015_-_Double_Debunking_Modern_Divination_and_the_End_of_Semiotics

media philosophy, Luciana Parisi (2012)

the notion of objects (algorithms) operating at the heart of cybernetic architectures, which generate a logic that is abstract and infinite, and lie beyond direct human cognition and control.

Walter Mignolo’s decolonial critique of visual hegemony (1995)

Maurizio Lazzarato’s “Video philosophy” (1996).