What is at stake (at play, en jeu) is the place of reality, the question of its degree. It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear.

It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. This puts into question our simplistic explanations about the birth of technology and the advent of the modern world.

It is perhaps not technologies and media which have caused our now famous disappearance of reality. On the contrary, it is probable that all our technologies (fatal offsprings that they are) arise from the gradual extinction of reality.

Wahey! To complement your great clip, here is a short extract from the film 'Everywhere' accompanied by the exquisite final movement from the Symphony of Silence:

Great article & very interesting resource too. Thanks syncopath.

Very interesting one
Thanks