Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging

by Engström, Timothy; Selinger, Evan

• ISBN13: 9780230580657
• ISBN10: 0230580653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first volume of its kind to analyze the impact that theories and practices of imaging have had on a variety of fields. It draws on an impressive range of philosophical approaches, from analytic, to pragmatic, to phenomenological -- concluding that imaging is developing a social and cultural impact comparable to language.

Author Biography

TIMOTHY ENGSTROM is Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
 
EVAN SELINGER is Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
 
 

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Reinventing Sight
Reinventing Sight: Theories and Practices of Imaging	p. 21
Perception and Imaging
Visual Apprehension and the European Renaissance	p. 65
Experience and Experiment in Art	p. 80
Phenomenology and Imaging: Incorporating the Material	p. 94
Epistemology, Identity, and Imaging
Concrete Images for Abstract Questions: A Philosophical View	p. 111
The Epistemic Status of Brain Images	p. 146
Technologies to Bond With	p. 164
On the Subject of Neural and Sensory Prostheses	p. 184
Art, Aesthetics, and Imaging
Final Fantasy, or the (Dis)IIIusion of Computer Graphic Life	p. 211
A Scene in the Digital Library: Imaging Literature	p. 227
William Kentridge: Moving Pictures	p. 252
Ethics, Politics, and Imaging
Publicity and Indifference: Media, Surveillance, "Humanitarian Intervention"	p. 267
ELSI Priorities for Brain Imaging	p. 298
The End of the World Picture? Lyotard, Technology and the Human	p. 313
Word and Image in Online Education	p. 327
Index	p. 339
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