Most present-day images — be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images —...

Most present-day images — be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images — are literally images in which there is nothing to see. They leave no trace, cast no shadow, and have no consequences. The only feeling one gets from such images is that behind each one there is something that has disappeared.

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