Imprints: Towards a Better Communicative Rationality | Veneeta Singha

Imprints: Towards a Better Communicative Rationality

 

 

Visutopia. I encountered this word and construct somewhat belatedly. Being buried in the books was a natural choice (for me) which unobtrusively metamorphosed into a way of life, almost. The digital sphere presented itself as an obvious departure from the 'dust-ridden' environment that we now, often, smile about. Swaying to and fro from many apposite opposites is also a basic edict of modernity. To capture moments, messages and meanings and glean from them that which is important offers a world of possibility. (Importance is a many splendoured thing.) To communicate this is difficult but begs the question: is reason an imprint, a communication, a thought?

 

 

We often describe our immediate world in visual terms. When projected, with infinite looping capabilities, this world then becomes a mirror and thus another world unto itself. How do I sit and look at a photograph, with complete focus and attention, and understand its reasoning - both of the picture itself and that of the photographer? No prizes here. We just do not have the time. Or have we foresaken the inclination? (The Internet is slow but patience is the virtue that we have not only abandoned but completely disabled!) Perhaps, the photograph is willfully returning us to a moment that either stood forgotten or that demanded of us an awareness we simply could not justify. 

 

 

I had forgotten about the importance of a graph until very recently and now I am linked to the photograph is ways that I continually attempt to comprehend. Then again, it is part of my livelihood structures and, certainly, I try. To reiterate the argument, the aesthetic-expressive reason underlies much of our endeavors in the world of communication. The world is also a many splendoured thing. The logic of a photograph can be assessed and evaluated to infinity but our perception of the moment or the message is fleeting. Transitory. Will the photograph remain imprinted or gather dust? Will it express a lightness of being or aesthetically reason with us?

 

 

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