NOT YET: Postphotography and the Transformation of Ontology and Temporality in Contemporary Media Studies
NOT YET: Postphotography and the Transformation of Ontology and Temporality in Contemporary Media Studies
Author(s): Barbora KundračíkováSubject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Photography, Communication studies, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: postphotography; ontology; temporality; artificial intelligence; operational images; media theory; media archaeology; planetary infrastructure; Jiří Thýn
Summary/Abstract: This study explores the concept of postphotography as a transformative moment in the ontology and temporality of visual culture, shaped by interconnected phenomena of computer technology, artificial intelligence and planetary crisis. Departing from traditional indexical models of photography, the postphotography image is no longer a direct trace of reality, but an operative, predictive and distributed event. Drawing on Jan Patočka’s philosophical insights on time as revelation, the study frames the image as a dynamic actor that opens rather than represents worlds. With the help of works by Jiří Thýn, it proposes that postphotography is not just a stylistic or technological shift, but an ontological and epistemological rupture that invites us to rethink what images are and what they do in the context of contemporary media ecology.
Journal: Przegląd Kulturoznawczy
- Issue Year: 66/2025
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 441-454
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
