The imaginary of knowledge design

Abstract

We are fully aware that the immediacy and speed of images have long since replaced the 'slowness' of speech in a society entirely subjugated by the media and the relational value that 'seeing with the mind', through the eyes, possesses. But this statement is not, in its absolute value, a prerogative of our digitally advanced society. Representing and communicating through images is a historical phenomenon since, Maurizio Vitta argues, "the picture is an inseparable element of the very concept of civilisation. Every epoch has based its self-knowledge and the prerequisites for its intervention in reality on it.