The Social Manifestations’ Synthesis As Image

Reality as truth is related to the appearances and representations of social manifestations in constant transition. That is, society’s appearances represent a continuous change. Therefore, regarding this conception of truth, this session addresses the visual dynamic established between appearances and the objective reality of shaping society’s freedom. The focus is on how the political action can be perceived and understood by the social actor, conceptualized, and defined as reality, thereby putting democratic values at risk. There are many ways an image can be interpreted through visual methods because of the ambiguity of the sense in which an image is transmitted. In this analysis, “reality” would be an empty or unreliable signifier if what it signified surpassed all possibilities of illusion. Thus, the question guiding this discussion is whether political images originate from the fact equivalence principle or involve representations of repetitive opinion as reality. It seems that “truth” appears in the form of dissimulated images deceptively related to already experienced facts. Therefore, a rupture from the real arises when the image is captured as the synthesis of social manifestations. Each visual element leads the observer to the individual and subjective imagination and, therefore, to a different interpretation. Hence, this session intends to discuss approaches to image studies to differentiate facts from opinions that have been visually constructed, spreading democracy in the face of the globalized standardization of communication.