The visual image and optical political regime

The article is focused on the concept of a visual image. The visual image essentially is a product of the imagination where his constructional nature appears. And a political design is carried out by modelling when a political idea is symbolically represented in the visual row of the perceived reality. In other words, the program serves as a representation or a symbolic image of the political world. Further the idea of a visual image is treated in the work on the basis of the concepts "technical image", the apparatus and the program (V. Flusser). The technical image is created by the political apparatus which program is realized by a leader-programmer. But the apparatus can only resign the reality, and the leader depends on this apparatus. As a result, new technical visual political universes are created, such as a photographic political universe. As a technical TV world, it is "dotty" and combinatorial, and not a linear one. So, on the basis of visual phenomena the whole optical regimes are constructed, both Soviet and postmodern ones. The article gives the example of the Stalin optical regime of "panopticon" where the Soviet "spectators" began to see clearly the future that had already came. Also here it is indicated on Putin optical mode of the third-party "viewers" passively perceiving the political world designed around the symbolic figure of the leader.

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