1st Edition

Images, Ethics, Technology

Edited By Sharrona Pearl Copyright 2016
222 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Images, Ethics, Technology explores the changing ethical implications of images and the ways they are communicated and understood. It emphasises how images change not only through their modes of representation, but through our relationship to them. In order to understand images, we must understand how they are produced, communicated, and displayed. Each of the 14 essays chart the... Read more

Introduction

  1. Relating Images
  2. Sharrona Pearl

    Section I: Authorizing Images

  3. Introduction: Interrogating the Authority of the Image
  4. Nora Draper

  5. Technologies of Bystanding: Learning to See Like a Bystander
  6. Carrie A. Rentschler

  7. Professionalizing Police Media Work: Surveillance Video and the Forensic Sensibility
  8. Kelly Gates

  9. Collision in a Courtroom
  10. Constance Penley

  11. "Who speaks for the art?"
  12. Larry Gross

    Section II: Memorializing Images

  13. Introduction: Residual/Visual: Images and their Specters
  14. Kevin Gotkin

  15. Facebook Photography and the Demise of Kodak and Polaroid
  16. Marita Sturken

  17. Forgiving without Forgetting: Contending with Digital Memory
  18. Ira Wagman

  19. Ambiguity, Cinema and the Digital Documentary Image
  20. Roderick Coover

    Section III: Embodying Images

  21. Introduction: Subjectification as Embodiment; Subjectification is Embodiment
  22. Alexandra Sastre and Nicholas Gilewicz

  23. The Autonomy of the Eye: Neuro-politics and Population in Design and Cybernetics
  24. Orit Halpern

  25. Sensory Topographies of Wind and Power in Kansas
  26. Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin

  27. The Face as a Medium

          Amit Pinchevski

Biography

Sharrona Pearl is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her first book, About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain, was published by Harvard University Press in 2010. She is currently working on a book entitled Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other.