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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

    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 relationship to technology as part of a larger complex social and cultural matrix, highlighting how these relations constrain and enable notions of responsibility with respect to images and what they represent. They demonstrate that as technology develops and changes, the images themselves change, not just with respect to content, but in the very meanings and indices they produce.

    This is a collection that not only asks: who speaks for the art? But also: who speaks for the witnesses, the cameras, the documented, the landscape, the institutional platforms, the taboos, those wishing to be forgotten, those being seen and the experience of viewing itself?

    Images, Ethics, Technology is ideal for advanced level students and researchers in media and communications, visual culture and cultural studies.

    Introduction

    1. Relating Images

      2. Sharrona Pearl

      Section I: Authorizing Images

    2. Introduction: Interrogating the Authority of the Image

      3. Nora Draper

    3. Technologies of Bystanding: Learning to See Like a Bystander

      4. Carrie A. Rentschler

    4. Professionalizing Police Media Work: Surveillance Video and the Forensic Sensibility

      5. Kelly Gates

    5. Collision in a Courtroom

      6. Constance Penley

    6. "Who speaks for the art?"

      7. Larry Gross

      Section II: Memorializing Images

    7. Introduction: Residual/Visual: Images and their Specters

      8. Kevin Gotkin

    8. Facebook Photography and the Demise of Kodak and Polaroid

      9. Marita Sturken

    9. Forgiving without Forgetting: Contending with Digital Memory

      10. Ira Wagman

    10. Ambiguity, Cinema and the Digital Documentary Image

      11. Roderick Coover

      Section III: Embodying Images

    11. Introduction: Subjectification as Embodiment; Subjectification is Embodiment

      12. Alexandra Sastre and Nicholas Gilewicz

    12. The Autonomy of the Eye: Neuro-politics and Population in Design and Cybernetics

      13. Orit Halpern

    13. Sensory Topographies of Wind and Power in Kansas

      14. Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin

    14. 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.

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