Letters, Postcards, Email by Milne Esther;

Author:Milne, Esther;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2009-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

According to critics like Siegert, Gregory Ulmer,70 and to a certain extent Jacques Derrida,71 the invention of the postcard represents a decisive and irreversible split within the history of communication. Siegert argues that the combination of photography and the postcard had a significant impact upon contemporary regimes of representation and the belief in the originality of subjectivity. He writes:

In addition to standard postage, standard format and standard text, there now was a standard picture, as well. With the advent of the picture postcard, visual memories departed from the human soul, only to await people thereafter on the routes of the World Postal Union. The picture postcard opened up the territory of the World Postal Union as an immense space of forgetting, the object of which was the world itself … Once memories circulated as picture postcards that could be sent any place on the globe … travelling itself became unnecessary.72

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