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. INDICE: List of Images - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - PART I: REINVENTING SIGHT - Reinventing Sight: Theories and Practicesof Imaging; T.Engström ; E.Selinger - PART II: PERCEPTION AND IMAGING - Visual Apprehension and the European Renaissance; A.Crosby - Experience and Experiment in Art; A.Noë - Phenomenology and Imaging: Incorporating the Material; D.Ihde - PART III: EPISTEMOLOGY, IDENTITY AND IMAGING - Concrete Images for Abstract Questions: A Philosophical View; P.Grim - The Epistemic Function of Brain Images; M.Delehanty - Technologies to Bond With; A.Clark - On the Subject of Neural and Sensory Prostheses; L.Cartwright ; B.Goldfarb - PART IV: ART, AESTHETICS AND IMAGING - Final Fantasy, or the [Dis]Illusion of Computer Graphic Life; V.Sobchack - A Scene in the Digital Library: Imaging Literature; C.Burnett - William Kentridge: Moving Pictures; C.Reade - PART V: ETHICS, POLITICS, AND IMAGING - Publicity and Indifferences: Media, Surveillance, 'Humanitarian Intervention'; T.Keenan - ELSI Priorities for Brain Imaging; J.Illes, R.de Vries, M.Cho ; P.Schraedley-Desmond - The End of the World Picture? Lyotard, Technology, and the Human; S.Malpas - Word and Image in Online Education; A.Freeberg -Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58065-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 15/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés