Looking through images : a phenomenology of visual media /

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusio...

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Main Author: Alloa, Emmanuel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Series:Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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ISBN:9780231547574
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface to the English Edition --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image --   |t 2. Aristotle's Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing --   |t 3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley --   |t 4. A Phenomenology of Images --   |t 5. Media Phenomenology --   |t Conclusion: Seeing Through Images- for an Alternative Theory of Media --   |t Afterword: Seeing Not Riddling --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work.Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear that could not be visible except in and through these very material devices. 
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