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Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging Timothy H. Engstrom

Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging By Timothy H. Engstrom

Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging by Timothy H. Engstrom


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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.

Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging Summary

Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging by Timothy H. Engstrom

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.

About Timothy H. Engstrom

CHRIS BURNETT is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Toledo, USA LISA CARTWRIGHT is an Associate Professor of Communications at the University of California at San Diego, USA MILDRED CHO is the Associate Director of the Stanford Centre for Biomedical Ethics, USA ANDY CLARK is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK ALFRED CROSBY is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Geography at the University of Texas, USA RAYMOND DE VRIES is Associate Professor in the Bioethics Program in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, USA MEGAN DELEHANTY is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada ANDREW FEENBERG is the Canadian Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University, Canada BRIAN GOLDFARB is an Associate Professor of Communications at the University of California at San Diego, USA PATRICK GRIM is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA DON IHDE is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, USA JUDY ILLES is Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics National Core for Neuroethics University of British Columbia, Canada THOMAS KEENAN is the Director of the Human Rights Project and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA SIMON MALPAS is a Lecturer at the Department of English Literature at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK ALVA NOE is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, USA CYRIL READE is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA PAMELA SCHRAEDLEY-DESMOND is a Biostatistician and is on the advisory board of the International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression, USA VIVIAN SOBCHACK is a Professor of Film and Television Studies at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, USA

Table of Contents

List of Images Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: REINVENTING SIGHT Reinventing Sight: Theories and Practices of Imaging; T.Engstrom & E.Selinger PART II: PERCEPTION AND IMAGING Visual Apprehension and the European Renaissance; A.Crosby Experience and Experiment in Art; A.Noe 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

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NPB9780230580657
9780230580657
0230580653
Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging by Timothy H. Engstrom
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2009-10-15
348
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