Original scientific paper

World Images

Ana Ofak ; Bauhaus University of Weimar, International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM), Weimar, Germany

Abstract

Today, the world image is far more than a figurative element of a cosmology. Just like a medium, it determines the way we perceive the world as well as the knowledge we possess about it. Following Martin Heidegger, the article analyses the process of becoming of the world image from the early modernity to the present times. The parameters a scientific draft of the world image displays and its transformations regarding alternating media (from central perspective to the computer e.g.) have a central meaning in this process. The author follows the idea that scientific images, which are a crucial part of the world image, serve as a proof and at the same time a prophecy. This assumption is substantiated through an insight into practices of computer simulation in modern sciences.

Keywords

image; medium/media; world; world images; Heidegger; Latour; Kittler; formation; presentation; representation; cultural technologies; computer; computer simulation; Google Earth

Hrčak ID:

68514

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68514

Publication date:

19.5.2011.

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