For an Ecology of Images
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2025
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-431-4 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-431-4 (ISBN)
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A new, ecological approach to images by a renowned philosopher
When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images" in On Photography, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the onslaught of images from advertising and television that she believed threatened our ability to truly see. Today, beyond deep anxieties over a diminishing "attention economy," concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed.
Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required to produce and properly view images. His inquisitive mind and sparkling, associative style of writing take us from the animal kingdom to the scientific history of the shadow, the theorems of Pliny to Nabokov's butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film and the first aerial photograph.
When Susan Sontag first proposed the idea of an "ecology of images" in On Photography, she meant it as an exhortation to be vigilant against the onslaught of images from advertising and television that she believed threatened our ability to truly see. Today, beyond deep anxieties over a diminishing "attention economy," concern focuses on the environmental cost of storing and circulating the digital images that confront us with unprecedented speed.
Against the disposable rapidity demanded by digital media, Peter Szendy emphasizes the labor and time required to produce and properly view images. His inquisitive mind and sparkling, associative style of writing take us from the animal kingdom to the scientific history of the shadow, the theorems of Pliny to Nabokov's butterflies, the first use of slo-mo in film and the first aerial photograph.
Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University, and one of the most prominent French philosophers writing today. His many books survey the interplay between aesthetic culture and economics, and include All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage and Phantom Limbs: On Musical Bodies. In 2020, he curated an exhibit at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Le supermarché du visible.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.1.2025 |
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Zusatzinfo | 19 images |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Gewicht | 200 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80429-431-4 / 1804294314 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80429-431-4 / 9781804294314 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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