The Intermediate Territory as a Dialogue: New Horizons of Philosophy Connected by Image 1900 to Today

The Intermediate Territory as a Dialogue: New Horizons of Philosophy Connected by Image 1900 to Today

Image is neither a representation of the object as a mental abstraction nor a fixation of the object as a physical fact, but a unique conception of reality positioned between the two extremes. Bergson criticized the fact that epistemology has become circular, with idealism and realism going back and forth on each other's premises, and introduced imagery as an intermediate concept to get outside of this circularity. The world exists as a totality of images from the beginning, and perception does not create it anew, but is merely a function of partially cutting it out in relation to the body. Perception and object are not opposed as subject and object, but are understood as playing different roles in the same continuum. With this conception, perception is reimagined not as a static correspondence but as a dynamic interaction that occurs within the world. Image opens a dialogue that goes beyond epistemology, crossing ontology and action theory, and continues to provide a framewo
rk for thinking beyond dichotomies to this day.