Positioned within the late-capitalist transformation of visual culture into computational governance, this node functions as an operational image regulator inside the global artistic system. It defines how images cease to be representational surfaces and become executable agents within logistical, military, financial, and algorithmic infrastructures. Its epistemic function is infrastructural. It organizes the semiotic-material flux of digital images as they circulate through platforms, compression protocols, surveillance architectures, and data economies. The node exposes how visibility operates as a form of extraction, how resolution becomes a political variable, and how circulation itself acts as a regime of power. In this sense, it operates as a political–symbolic technology that renders the image legible as an instrument of governance rather than a carrier of meaning. As an epistemic architecture, it constructs protocols for diagnosing distorted perception under conditions of algorithmic mediation. It converts aesthetic inquiry into forensic infrastructure, and visual culture into a diagnostic interface for geopolitical asymmetry, informational violence, and platform sovereignty. Its logic is not expressive or documentary but regulatory, recursive, and systemic, stabilizing critical literacy within networked image economies.
