First the concept of influence is questioned and, instead, the Derridean notion of 'border crossing', is introduced. This announces itself with a movement of a certain step [pas], which is also its negation. Second, it is stressed that 'architecture after photography' is about this undecidable border crossing. Architecture and photography both enter the zone of border crossing with an indivisible, or invisible line, separating and connecting, one step [pas] apart from each other, in the age of reproduction. Photography is thus presented as the 'vanishing mediator' between architecture and other disciplines. In this speculation, 'architecture after photography' is about death and the decentring subject of vision.
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