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About Stain(s)

Author(s): Baert, Barbara

Abstract

The stain asserts its autonomy as a spot or patch of colour different from the ground. It exists in and of itself. The stain tells us what it means to be the medium of visibility. Hence, every stain is a Metabild, a particular image that explains something about the image as a phenomenon. These properties make the stain a paradigm for the visual medium per se. In this essay I will deal with five factors that could have led to this powerful model: the stain as prototype, Veronica’s stain, the psycho-energetic symptom, Echo’s camouflage and finally, the stain as le désir mimétique.

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Baert, Barbara: About Stain(s). In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 7 (2016), Nr. 2, S. 29-45. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18651.
@ARTICLE{Baert2016,
 author = {Baert, Barbara},
 title = {About Stain(s)},
 year = 2016,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18651}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {29--45},
}
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