Images produce an intellectual process different from the ancient one or the one developed by classical education. It goes without saying that this process is not completely new; of course, since sight existed, and since people themselves chose their images, they also thought by means of images and entered into this kind of thinking. But this was limited and not frequent, because images were not dominant. The new factor in our day comes from the effect of visual reproduction's triumph over all else, which involves us in the domination of one form of thought. This supremacy is new, even though we are not dealing with a completely new form of thought.


J. Hanks, trans. (1985), p. 210 - The Humiliation of the Word (1981)

Jacques Ellul Quotes

Images produce an intellectual process different from the ancient one or the one developed by classical education. It goes without saying that this...

Images produce an intellectual process different from the ancient one or the one developed by classical education. It goes without saying that this...

Images produce an intellectual process different from the ancient one or the one developed by classical education. It goes without saying that this...

Images produce an intellectual process different from the ancient one or the one developed by classical education. It goes without saying that this...