“It is not important that the photographer knows how to see, because the camera sees for him”: through the fertile concept of the technological unconscious, Franco Vaccari develops a profound work of “unhinging” the visual conditioning that limits the potential of photography. In his writings, as in his “exhibitions in real time”, the artist demonstrates that when the camera is not used in a forcedly “artistic” way, but is left to act as an instrument capable of producing autonomous records and memories, it favours the emergence of behaviours, relationships and functions that are fundamental to defining the very meaning of photography in contemporary civilisation. Vaccari’s writings, presented here in a richer and more complete edition than the previous ones (1979; 1994), offer a stimulating theoretical elaboration centred on the theme of a civilisation, ours, entirely based on commodities, on communication, and wrapped in images.