Post-truth, calculations and informed surfaces: notes for decoding images on network

Abstract

In the essay, we formulated notes to decode technical images. We adapt and use Vilém Flusser's concepts, such as design, information, doubt, the universe of technical images, the ontology of numbers, among others. In a free theoretical-methodological appropriation, we analyze the so-called post-truth images, trying to understand the languages that make them happen. In this case, we used images about the attack to Jair Bolsonaro, then a candidate, that circulated on Twitter. The images reveal a technocultural and political inability to show their games and to admit doubt, in order to multiply the possible and habitable worlds. We point to the experimental production of images as a way to challenge the contemporary apparatus and to the disinformation of images as a way of decoding and learning calculus, which results in a cultural revolution.