Image and Power in the Age of Computer Vision: an Interpretation Using Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

This article uses the notions of modulation and information in order to redefine the notion of image in the new context of artificial vision. Machine learning algorithms have enable an ever greater automation of visual perception where images are produced and consumed by machines. It seems that traditional categories to think the relationship image-power become obsolete in light of these new technologies. Thus, this article explores how Gilbert Simondon’s notions of modulation and information particularly as received in Gilles Deleuze’s work, offer an alternative approach to a post-representational concept of image and its relation to new power regimes (societies of control).