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Contents 1 Some questions for the Faculty for the Interpretation of Images... 1.1 Definitions 1.2 The Image v Text Dichotomy 1.3 Text as an image encoding representation according to conventions 1.4 "On the Internet there is no text, there are only images" 1.5 Interpret this: 1.6 Now try this one, same questions: 2 THIS IS NOT TEXT 2.1 Looking forward to hearing from you!

[edit] Some questions for the Faculty for the Interpretation of Images...

[edit] Definitions

• Image
  • You have defined it here by means of a dictionary definition and sets of associated words. I think this might benefit from a little more depth. What characterises an image? How can we tell if something is an image or not? Are you only dealing with visual images or do sculptures count as three-dimensional tactile images? What about imitated birdsong?
• Text
  • You appear to be referring to graphically recorded words only. Is this a correct understanding or are you also considering a broader meaning of "text" as "a body of work containing ideas"? What about MP3 audiobooks - text, image or something else?

[edit] The Image v Text Dichotomy

• You seem to be arguing mostly that a thing is either text or image. Yet you also apparently argue that images tend towards text when they incorporate words. Can a thing perhaps be both text and image? And particularly, if text is perceived visually is it not necessarily also image?

[edit] Text as an image encoding representation according to conventions

• Is it fair to say that text is a sequence of images which can be interpreted according to well-established conventions? If not, why not? If so, how does it differ from image - is it not a subset of image?
• I wonder if one difference is that text is mostly (but not exclusively - think about poetry) linear and thus one dimensional. By comparison image is two- or three-dimensional and the relationships between the parts are thus less tolerant of distortions (e.g. distorted text fields v distorted images in a reformatted web page).

[edit] "On the Internet there is no text, there are only images"

• Is it any less valid to say "there are no images, there is only text"?
  • The images you see are representations reconstructed from a linear stream of digital data (text?).
  • If there is no text, how does Google work?

[edit] Interpret this:

http://www.escualotis.com/unpopperuno/Immagini/magritte.jpg

• Text or image?
• What does it mean?
• Does it make sense?
• Is it true?

[edit] Now try this one, same questions:

[edit] THIS IS NOT TEXT

[edit] Looking forward to hearing from you!