“Digitalization has brought a new dimension to the ‘photographic paradigm of the image’ which was forged in the fifteenth century with notions of linear perspective and resulted in the forced convergence of vision and representation based on the hypothesis of their commensurability.
On today’s digital screens, that is, on the level of visual perception, the photographic paradigm seems to remain intact, but behind the screen, on the computational level, the powerful algorithms that underlie today’s image processing and display impose a new, ‘algorithmic paradigm of the image’.”
PARAPHRASED CONCLUSION: There is another way of envisioning the future of the image that I will call the postimage that can be formulated in the framework of posthuman(ist) theory where humans, technologies and nature are no longer seen as separate (or even antagonistic) but as co-evolving. I posit that the postimage is not an objective (photographic) or subjective (human-centred) image, but a collaborative image. With gregarious animals, sensing is a distributed yet coordinated consensus within a given swarm, pack, herd. Posthuman vision is a collaborative vision distributed across species between machines, animals and intermediary forms. The postimage comes to be defined as the collaboration of visioning animals, algorithms and autonomous machines.
Ingrid Hoelzl 2018, ‘POST IMAGE’ entry in THE POSTHUMAN GLOSSARY https://www.academia.edu/36459208/POSTIMAGE