Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

ISBN-13: 9780415145770 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str.

Kevin Robins

Opis

We are constantly being told that we are living through an image revolution. In this sceptical exploration of the politics of visual culture, Kevin Robins assesses the nature of our emotional and imaginary investment in the visual media from photography to virtual reality. He looks at how modern image technologies allow us to monitor and survey the real world while maintaining a distance which somehow denies its reality. He asks what pressures lie behind the utopian fantasies of cyberspace with its alternative realities and virtual communities. Rather than accepting the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real, Into the Image examines them sociologically, as shaped by forces and events in the real world, and demonstrates that what continues to matter is the relation of image and screen culture to the way we interact with that world.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND VISUAL CULTURE, 1 THE TOUCH OF THE UNKNOWN, 2 THE SPACE OF THE SCREEN, 3 SIGHTS OF WAR, 4 CYBERSPACE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 5 CONSUMING IMAGES: FROM THE SYMBOLIC TO THE PSYCHOTIC, 6 THE CITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION, 7 WILL IMAGES MOVE US STILL?, Notes, Illustrations, Index

O autorze

Kevin Robins