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Vision#6: The Cartesian Eye? « Previous | |Next »
February 8, 2004

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Max Ernst, The Wheel of Light, 1925

I cannot find anything about this image on the net. I came across it here.

Is it the Cartesian eye? Or Bataille's pineal eye.

How does it relate to a central conflict within our cultural history for primacy that has been waged between the book and the film, between the newspaper and the television, between the word and the image?

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| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 1:47 PM | | Comments (0)
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