Spectacle

For better or worse, we are no longer in the state of nature (phusis) that the Greeks were in.  We are in the realm of the spectacle...Provost Fouke where all objects and things are always already mediated by the info-sphere (meta-meta-phusis). 

One of the trappings of the spectacle is that it maintains an overwhelming power to sap desire from its constituents.  The problem of the spectacle is that we are in the now-time of the not-caring.  The desire of self-inquiry and of the desire to question dwindles as we get caught up in the flow of images (commodities).

What Deleuze illustrates with Bacon is the power of feeling.Bacon harbors within himself all the violence of Ireland, and the violence of Nazism, the violence of war. He passes through the horrors of the crucifixions, and especially the fragment of the crucifixion, or the head of meat, or the bloody suitcase. (34)  If we can wade through the info-sphere’s spectacle and locate a feeling or desire to guide us through it, we will have something to lead us forwards in creating a pattern to express your situation.

So we take up painting analogically.  Painting carries with it the logic of all imaging.  We are looking for a way to make resemblances beyond mimesis.  The photograph would not get us out of this problem.  Painting allows color, contour, modulation, etc. to assist in making analogical, rather than digital, relationships.