how things are discovered

For the french writer Michel Houellebecq, maps are a type of image that recover the theological world view from its technological dimension. Following this argument, access to the world in modern Western culture, has been presented as a neo-pagan vision as the world is presented to the individual as something to be conquered; ready to be explored, always forward under the scheme of a progressive line.

The image of Earth taken by Billy Anders was so important because regained the point of view of God, just like the maps. Seeing things from above necessarily implies a change of scale. The implications on the change of scale that produce aerial images, in this case, invites us to leave the realm of the merely representative traditional perspectives, and to operate in the same fundamentals that supports our world view: we are no longer individuals thrown without a long and lonely journey to live, we are not subject fixed in a land that ends with the horizon ,we are not longer bodies united in the form of countries. Our most intimate anxieties dissolve in the image of an indifferent world, in a compressed overview of the world.

I claim that, since that day, the "god´s view" perspective has become very important in our daily life. Subtly and quietly , this technology produces scale tensions between degrees of perception that we use to understand the world. The clearest example of all this has  to do with Google Maps, it has changed social dynamics by the way they allow us to put ourselves in a broader circumstance. Also, the "selfie phenomena", try to produce a sense of verticality and detachment, for example, with the increasingly use of prosthesis or sticks .