Operative images and soft-montage, or the historicity of the social function of images in the work of Harun Farocki

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Claudio Celis Bueno

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This paper examines the notions of operative images and soft-montage in order to better understand the critical value of Harun Farocki’s video installations. This paper puts forth the following hypothesis: the critical value of Farocki’s work lies on its capacity to reflect upon the historicity of the social function of images. More specifically, Farocki’s work suggests that in the contemporary world the social function of visual representation shifts from the regime of images to what has been defined as the visuality regime.

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Claudio Celis Bueno

Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, Universidad Diego Portales. Santiago, Chile.