Hvad er det analoge?

Alexander Galloway arbejder på at forstå og konceptualisere forskellene mellem det digitale og det analoge. Nedenfor holder han foredrag (på Penn universitet) på baggrund af artiklen “What is the Analog?“. Det er mere kompliceret end som så.

Her er et par af hans forsøg på at definere det analoge:

“Analogos means proportionate or comparable. Thus analogos means literally “proportionate with” or “according to” a due logos. One might simply say that the analog is well proportioned or suitable.”

“Hence the analog is found most easily in curves and waves, in an aesthetic of smoothness and unbroken lines, planes, or volumes. The mirror, the echo, the ghost, the trace, the outline, these are paradigmatic analog modes”

“…the analog is quite simply the real, but a real having been denuded of its romantic and nostalgic aura, the real without any logic of presence or absence, the real without the principle of norm and deviation”