نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; This article attempts to understand what the advent of deep fakes may change or reveal in the current circulation of networked images. Lyrics from various pop songs produced over the last 50 years provide a number of intuitions which, taken together, invite us to relocate images within their networking effects among human communities, indifferently to their truth content. While truthful depiction is undeniably crucial to our mental and social ecologies, the current obsession with "fake news" and "post-truth politics" tends to underestimate the more complex dynamics involved in the emergence and circulation of images. Gilbert Simondon, Ophelia Deroy and Nick Land are quoted, along with Frank Zappa, Paul Simon, Thom Yorke or Deerhoof, in order to raise questions on another approach to the ontology of networked images, no less interested in truth, but more realistically attuned to hyperstitional dimensions of our common worlding. The advent of deep fakes may provide an opportunity to reconsider what images are and, more importantly, what they do. CAN ONE RESPOND TO A QUESTIONNAIRE WITH QUESTIONS? In the questionnaire he sent us for a special issue of The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Jacob Lund asks: "To which extent do the advent of operative images and machine vision and the increasing number of images that become networked change the ontology of the image?" If we agree with the statement that we can no longer "think of images as relatively individualized or delimited phenomena," but that, increasingly, "images seem to gain meaning and significance through their relationships with other images, and from being networked," what philosophical, political and aesthetic consequences should we draw from this (new?) state of affair? While genuinely attempting to address such issues, I will rather do so by formulating further questions than by bringing assertive answers.
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