Labour and its Memory Harun Farocki in Conversation with Marco Scotini Marco Scotini, 2010 CONVERSATION 21.04.2021 EN I try to use a term operational images. This goes back to Roland Barthes in Mythologies, where he says that a non-metaphoric language, an operational language, would be the one that a woodpecker uses: it’s speaking with a tree and not about a tree.