Philosophy of magic idealism acting through the techniques of image transition between the analogical ecosystem and the digital one

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  • Cláudio Clécio Vidal Eufrausino Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Keywords:

Image. Digital transformation. Aura. Communicational ecosystem. Reproduction techniques.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate how the philosophy of the Magic Idealism – that influenced thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault – is related to digital transformation of image. It is analyzed, specifically, the case of digital restoration and colorization of old pictures. It is worked the hypothesis that these processes find identity in the tension between the rise and the decline of aura. By means of this notion, Benjamin reflects on the conflict between the uniqueness of time-and-space experience and technical reproducibility. The referred aura movements are, according to the worked ideas, related to the image transition from analogical ecosystem to digital one.

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Author Biography

Cláudio Clécio Vidal Eufrausino, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Mestre em Comunicação, mídia e cultura pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Ivestiga a comunicação de conceitos das ciências humanas e da filosofia por meio da linguagem alegórica (com destaque para narrativas mitológicas contemporâneas). Foi eleito um dos ganhadores do prêmio Jovens Produtores de Mídia (Unesco, 2006) pelo trabalho desenvolvido junto à Articulação Aids Pernambuco.

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Published

2010-12-20

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VIDAL EUFRAUSINO, C. C. Philosophy of magic idealism acting through the techniques of image transition between the analogical ecosystem and the digital one. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 16, n. 2, p. 65–86, 2010. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/15658. Acesso em: 2 may. 2025.

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2010)

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