Abstract
While this book is primarily devoted to the topic of registration, recording, and keeping track in the digital age, this chapter must be seen as a coda, in which the author intends to lead the reader towards a series of reflections on imagination or, as he calls it, emagination. For him, emagination does not contradict registration. It can rather be seen as an emerging property of the latter, just as registration can be seen as an emerging property of information and communication.
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There is actually a difference between database and data structure, and this is the reason why Manovich remains, in his definition, a sort of “material idealist.” I thank Galit Wellner for this precious remark.
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See, for instance, Issue 39 (2015/2016) of the French review artpress2, devoted to the digital arts.
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Romele, A. (2018). From Registration to Emagination. In: Romele, A., Terrone, E. (eds) Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75759-9_13
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