Images gain meaning only through each receiver’s embodied reprocessing operations

Evidence

[A]ny technical circuit or image is necessarily the product of an embodied framing of information […]. Insofar as it serves to actualize the equipotentiality of the living in empirical informational circuits, framing furnishes the mechanism through which meaning inheres in information, and for this reason, can properly be said to create information. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 539 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It comes as a shock when a photograph registers an enormous enlargement of Pierre’s hands as he holds them forward (because the camera grasps them in their own dimension and without synthetic connection with the corporal totality), for we perceive that these same hands appear without enlargement if we look at them with the naked eye. In this sense the body appears within the limits of the situation as a synthetic totality of life and action. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 903 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceptual unity arises from purposive traversal rather than passive observation; Attention transforms raw information into images rather than choosing among made ones — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 445; Embodied framing creates meaning and thereby information — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 539 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Embodied framing creates meaning and thereby information #corroborates (0.90) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 539
• Perceptual unity arises from purposive traversal rather than passive observation #expands (0.85)
• Photographs distort body parts because they lack the perceiver’s synthetic totality #expands (0.82) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 903
• Attention transforms raw information into images rather than choosing among made ones #expands (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 445