Binding: Paperback
Description: The three essays in Image written by leading philosophers of religion explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological. Modern life is steeped in images image - making and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create store transmit and display images. The three essays in Image written by leading philosophers of religion Mark C. Taylor Mary - Jane Rubenstein and Thomas A. Carlson explore the power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological. Building on Heidegger's notion that modern humanity aims to master the world by picturing or representing the real they investigate the contemporary culture of the image in its philosophical religious economic political imperial and military dimensions challenging the abstraction anonymity and dangerous disconnection of contemporary images. Taylor traces a history of capitalism focusing on its lack of humility particularly in the face of mortality and he considers art as a possible way to reconnect us to the earth. Through a genealogy of iconic views from space Rubenstein exposes the delusions of conquest associated with extraterrestrial travel. Starting with the pressing issues of surveillance capitalism and facial recognition technology Carlson extends Heidegger's analysis through a meditation on the telematic elimination of the individual brought about by totalizing technologies. Together these essays call for a consideration of how we can act responsibly toward the past in a way that preserves the earth for future generations. Attending to the fragility of material things and to our own mortality they propose new practices of imagination grounded in love and humility.
Title: Image Three Inquiries In Technology And Imagination
Author(s): Carlson Professor Thomas A.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226782287
Pages: 240 Pages, 21 Halftones
Publication Date: 9/20/2021
Series: TRIOS
Category: Philosophy