The medium disappears as a finite entity: intermedial consideration about the visual nucleus of ‘absents cities’

Abstract

Potential visual nucleus of Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City (1992) is ostensible on the homonym graphic expansion from Luis Scafati and Pablo de Santis (2000). There is a complex intermedial transposition on this, which overcome the simple action of draw narrative facts (Baetens), when is presented as an aesthetic proposal of imagetext (Mitchell). As well, this manifests a particular experience around the forms that, on a material level, rectifies the iconic character from their own referent. On a reflexive level, both objects problematize the symbiotic implication of the dialectic between mental-image and object-image (Stiegler); also, the “absence” reinforces the mutability and virtuality which are described by its fragmentary images, and whose correlated with is represented in the “Macedonio’s Machine”.