The texts touch on aspects of a single topic and raise the general problem of the phenomenon of the non-logical in photography.
[10] The photographic system reveals that forms of thought traditionally defined as archaic are an integral component of modern consciousness.
[11][12][13] The modern analytical system considers logical thinking to be its basis: rational knowledge is built on its principles.
This concept was partly presented in the works of Roland Barthes,[15] Jean Baudrillard,[16] Rosalind Krauss[17] and subsequently formulated in the book "Photography and Non-logical Form".
The concept is based on the study of the principles of non-logical consciousness, initiated by Ernst Cassirer,[18] Lucien Lévy-Bruhl[19] and Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Photography violates the principle of language and meaning, changes the usual continuity of time, otherwise defines the system and structure of space.
[22][23] Ekaterina Vasilyeva draws attention to the fact that photography cannot act as a sign and cannot use the system of meaning formation inherent in language.
[29] Photography violates the principles of classification adopted in the civilizational system and subject to categorical or hierarchical thinking.
Researchers pay attention to the fact that the principle of generalization, on which the taxonomic system is built, is not possible in photography.
The taxonomic model presupposes an order of precedence, a hierarchy of the important and the insignificant, the main and the peripheral.”[37] Researchers point out that photography, in fact, does not allow for the possibility of such a division.
“The photograph sees the time flow as a set of isolated “nows” that violate the idea of linearity and build a chaotic environment,” notes photography researcher Ekaterina Vasilieva.
[41] Photography radically mixes the emphasis between past, present and future: frames as events can be arranged in any sequence.
[62][63][64] They characterize the book as a study in an attempt to consider photography as part of an irrational system in today's culture.
[68][69] “Vasilyeva’s research shows the presence in a number of media phenomena of modern culture of elements that have their own activity and logic, beyond the control of human rationality.”[70] The book “Photography and Non-Logical Form” is presented in the collections of the following libraries: