“this puts an end even to the imagining of the image, to its fundamental illusion since, in a computer generation, the referent exists and there is no place even for the real to ‘take place,’ being immediately produced as virtual reality…All this leads inevitably to the death of photography as an original medium. With the analogue image it is the essence of photography that disappears. That image still attested to the presence of subject to an object…
The problem of reference images was already an absolute one: how is it with the real? How is it with representation? But when, with the virtual, the referent disappears, when there is no situation of a real world set over a light-sensitive film…then there is, ultimately, no possible representation anymore.”
one last Baudrillard post for the time being
