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Deontological Coupling

I can’t remember whether or not I posted any of my LA photos to flickr.

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Re: quote below,

The argument coud be made that the act of photgraphy is an act of destruction.

Pressing the shutter button becomes a kind of surrogate memory that ultimately obviates the need for ‘memory’ at all.

When viewed through a camera lens, all experience becomes mediated experience.

An experience translated into ones and zeros before it hits the cones and rods of the retina — before it catches up with the fleshy mess of affect and ontology — experience, memory, becomes a neatly catalogued file-structure, an iPhoto slideshow.

Thus it would make sense that a city that lives on both sides of the camera lens becomes a city that disappears in the minds, in the memories, of its inhabitants.

I dunno.

“The critic and historian Norman M. Klein has called Los Angeles “the most photographed and least remembered city in the world.”