Images of world: from the images-trace to the electro-numerical space

Although the cinematograph has appeared as an extension of the planimetric logic, thus updating the cartographic model of the Atlas, its emergence realized the dream-already potentially contained in the map's logic-of travelling the world in a straight line, with no interruptions, overcoming every restriction of time and space. Here, I examine the cinema's two-sided nature, its status of frontier between the spatial conception of the geometric-Euclidean system and the implementation of the spherical logic of the Globe; i.e. the evolution from the cinema's cartographic tendency to the electro-numerical image's creation and proliferation. Through this electro-numerical image, also due to the progressive colonization of the atmosphere, the Earth is no longer envisaged as flat, acquiring the shape of a network of lines and intersections. The planimetric logic underlying the image-trace no longer leads the world. Globalization denies the Euclidean geometry. Ubiquity and instantaneousness, implemented by the speed with which the electro-numerical image travels, cause the reality's progressive despatialization. That is the reason why the electro-numerical image no longer represents "the world becoming image" but "the imagination becoming world", unavoidably generating a new experiential horizon.