ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that discussion on media and representation may be said to have begun with a look at power relations in the production of tools of resistance, and an excursion into different forms of reflexivity and subjectivity. In a world where seeing is believing and where the real is equated with the visible, the human eye and its perfected substitute, the mechanical eye, are at the center of the system of representation. The photographed image not only assures a new hold on the visible, it also functions as an authentication of the identity of the visible. Reality thereby is redefined in terms of visibility; and knowledge, in terms of techniques, information and evidences. Of equal in/significance is the play of a game that repeats and displaces the visible/invisible duality inherent to a regime of visibility whose standards continue relentlessly to contaminate the world, even in its most remote parts.
