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This chapter outlines key themes and premises for the discussion of the mass image, the Anthropocene image and image commons. The discussion relates to a range of implications as to the meaning and meaninglessness, location and immateriality, and ecology and abundance of the mass image. At the centre of the discussion is the question of the database that is the synthetic element and infrastructure through which the image exists. On one hand, the mass image aspires to become the most ecological image possible: complete, formed of intricate webs of connections, and permanently evolving. On the other, it is the most environmental of images, in the sense that it constructs a total image of the world so complex and complete that it excludes the world it depicts, turning it into pure context, pure environment, that which surrounds what it truly prizes: an inscription of the world as data.
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