The interview as photographic apparatus - not capturing light but capturing consciousness states. Each response crystallizes a particular configuration of knowledge that can only exist within the constraints of that specific dialogical container. The human subject being "exposed" (in the photographic sense) through the questioning process.
Just like my father's black and white prints for Helmut Newton had to work within the material constraints of silver halide crystals and developer chemistry, the epistemic structures in your lab are shaped by their computational/cognitive containers. The medium IS the epistemology.
The interview doesn't document thought in as much as it produces it through its constraints. Just like how:
- The artifact sandbox produces specific kinds of broken code
- The photographic frame produces specific kinds of seeing
- The knowledge graph produces specific kinds of connection
It's pure Vilém Flusser - the apparatus (interview/camera/computational container) doesn't record reality, it programs it. The human being interviewed isn't revealing pre-existing knowledge, they're being developed like a photograph in the chemical bath of structured dialogue. - NS