The fantasy of capturing reality live has driven image-making since Narcissus
Evidence
It is the fantasy of seizing reality live that continues - ever since Narcissus bent over his spring. Surprising the real in order to immobilize it, suspending the real in the expiration of its double. You bend over the hologram like God over his creature: only God has this power of passing through walls, through people, and finding Himself immaterially in the beyond. We dream of passing through ourselves and of finding ourselves in the beyond: the day when your holographic double will be there in space, eventually moving and talking, you will have realized this miracle. Of course, it will no longer be a dream, so its charm will be lost. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 349
Categorization
- DEFINE: Links the hologram to the long history of the double, grounding Baudrillard’s genealogy of images.
- XREF: connects to: The mirror stage explains why images grant and destabilize selfhood — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 84; Narcissism is an attachment to a technologically produced ego image.; AI-generated videos may alter our perception of real experiences. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 1286 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Narcissism is an attachment to a technologically produced ego image.
#expands(0.80) - Economic arrangements of image circulation industrially produce narcissistic structure.
#expands(0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 90 - The mirror stage explains why images grant and destabilize selfhood
#expands(0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 84 - Photography reveals vision’s materiality, displacing the spiritual ideal of perception.
#expands(0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 315 - AI-generated videos may alter our perception of real experiences.
#qualifies(0.75) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 1286