The Nonhuman Character of Technology And Nature Revealed Through Photography

Abstract

Tools, like photography, are helping the man fighting nature. However, inside the essential structures of photography there is no signification function. Therefore, the objects represented in the photograph appear as they are in nature, meaningless and without human presence. The photograph, like other technical devices, does not retain the meaning of things. And so, photography is equivalent to nature, which equivantly has nothing to do with human meanings and values. Only in the field of subjectivity and human intersubjectivity the meanings given to world objects are able to survive. In addition, free of sense objects from photography or film, under the guidance of consciousness can combine in unexpected ways and, as a result, produce alternative meanings. Hereafter, the photograph circumscribes an element that corresponds to the basic function of art in general, namely the opportunity to readjust the daily life in which we live in by giving possible meanings and opening up alternative perspectives. In this context, the man is no longer formalized by abstract rationality, but returns to the rethinking of the living environment in which he cohabitates with others.