« Ontolography, then, suggests a system of calling forth images without any direct observation or documentation at all. It’s all built on past documentation, like a photographer who only takes photographs of magazines. It’s an acknowledgement that we don’t need to do the things we want to document. We’ve done every pose enough that a machine could produce it, and now we don’t need to pose but only to reference past poses from our imagination and call them up.
The images that rise up from this movement are “pictures of pictures,” to steal DeLillo’s phrase. We don’t need events, we just need event categories. We can create documentation of a birthday party without eating a single piece of cake.
Ontolographs are images made from information categories instead of events. »