Re: <nettime> The Lens of Images[ nlp analysis ]

[josh zeidner <jjzeidner@yahoo.com>]

> THE LENS OF IMAGES 
> 
> Desire, Commodities, Media and Hacking 
> 


 MOST COMMON TRIGRAMS:

 frequency,  lexeme

 3           : the.world.as
 3           : the.act.of
 3           : a.kind.of
 2           : the.spirit.of
 2           : world.as.a
 2           : is.the.desire
 2           : you.find.some
 2           : at.the.world
 2           : in.the.service
 2           : the.empire.of
 2           : the.provisionality.of
 2           : the.desire.to
 2           : only.possible,.but
 2           : of.database.and
 2           : not.only.possible,
 2           : the.centre.of
 2           : the.service.of
 2           : make.a.new             

 MOST COMMON BIGRAMS( WITH POS FILTERS ):

 5           : the.world
 4           : bits.of
 3           : the.desire
 3           : the.media
 3           : images.are
 3           : world.as
 3           : database.and
 3           : the.act
 3           : the.culture
 3           : all.texts
 2           : the.provisionality
 2           : centre.of
 2           : the.mainstream
 2           : relation.between
 2           : the.centre
 2           : the.spirit
 2           : spirit.of
 2           : of.desire
 2           : search.for
 2           : museums.of
 2           : william.burroughs
                                                   

> David Cox, September 2001 
> 
> d.cox@mailbox.gu.edu.au 
> 
> Images are themselves a lens on the culture which
> makes them. Walter 
> Benjamin was both right and wrong about art in the
> age of mechanical 
> reproduction. He was correct in stating that as
> images proliferate, their 
> overall commercial value in depreciates. He was
> wrong in assuming that 
> manufactured images are worth less than their 'real
> world' referent. 

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