Critical studies has come to sing a chorus of collective disavowal of the computer’s visuality. Nicholas Mirzoeff writes, for instance, that computers are not “inherently visual tools,” and Jacob Gaboury has made the case recently evenmore emphatically: “The computer is not a visual medium.” The reasons for these statements seem relatively straightforward when taking into account the authors’ subsequent explanations. Mirzoeff goes on to say: “The machines process data using a binary system of ones and zeros, while the software makes the results comprehensible to a human user.” Gaboury refines his point by arguing that the computer is “primarilymathematical, or perhaps electrical, but it is not in the first instance concerned with questions of vision or image.” Indeed, given these explanations, there would appear to be no surer illustration of W. J. T. Mitchell’s argument that “there are no visual media”—that all media are instead “‘mixed media,’” comprising multiple sensory modalities—than computer hardware,

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关键硬件：图像和数据电路

批判性研究已经开始齐声反对计算机的可视性。例如，尼古拉斯·米尔佐夫 (Nicholas Mirzoeff) 写道，计算机并不是“固有的视觉工具”，而雅各布·加布里 (Jacob Gaboury) 最近更加强调：“计算机不是视觉媒介。” 考虑到作者随后的解释，这些陈述的原因似乎相对简单。Mirzoeff 继续说道：“机器使用由 1 和 0 组成的二进制系统处理数据，而软件则让人类用户可以理解结果。” Gaboury 通过论证计算机“主要是数学的，或者可能是电子的，但它首先与视觉或图像问题无关”来完善他的观点。事实上，鉴于这些解释，似乎没有更可靠的 WJ 说明