Between cutouts, mounts and seams: the imagined world is a mosaic

Abstract

My principal aim in this text is discussing, regarding Vilém Flusser’s considerations about technical images reproduction and the uncertain future of writing, how linguistic systems in their different propositions present a common denominator connected to their materialisation processes. In this case, I examine these processes as an intersection of different linguistic systems, as visual and pictographic structures, verbal characters, film composition, etc. Further, I also explore the peculiarity of these arrangements in their structural units and their different discursive narratives, modified in their inscriptional processes’ evolution, organisation and superposition. Therefore, I discuss the idea of this complex “in construction” mosaic, regarding their bricoleurs’ creative acts, finding equivalence between the linguistic codes’ structural units and the film codes’ units, as I present here by the analysis of the educational video American Thrift as raw material of the videoclip Cirrus.