TRIOS #: Image

Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination

TRIOS #: Image
Thomas A Carlson, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Mark C Taylor
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20 Aug 2021 US
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9780226782287
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Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion Mark C. Taylor, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, and Thomas A. Carlson, explore the power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological. Building on Heidegger' s notion that modern humanity aims to master the world by picturing or representing the real, they investigate the contemporary culture of the image in its philosophical, religious, economic, political, imperial, and military dimensions, challenging the abstraction, anonymity, and dangerous disconnection of contemporary images. Taylor traces a history of capitalism, focusing on its lack of humility, particularly in the face of mortality, and he considers art as a possible way to reconnect us to the earth. Through a genealogy of iconic views from space, Rubenstein exposes the delusions of conquest associated with extraterrestrial travel. Starting with the pressing issues of surveillance capitalism and facial recognition technology, Carlson extends Heidegger' s analysis through a meditation on the telematic elimination of the individual brought about by totalizing technologies. Together, these essays call for a consideration of how we can act responsibly toward the past in a way that preserves the earth for future generations. Attending to the fragility of material things and to our own mortality, they propose new practices of imagination grounded in love and humility.

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"Image is a gorgeous volume of ideas from three of the most significant philosophers of religion and culture. Deep fakes. Love and death. Sun Ra and the absurdity of Silicon Valley futurists-all come together in a way that is accessible and unexpected. This will be essential reading for years to come. " -- John Lardas Modern, author of Neuromatic; or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain "In Image, three distinguished scholars draw inspiration from a host of innovative thinkers to address our contemporary preoccupation with what can only be called the ' posthuman. ' It is a small masterpiece. Specialists in religion, philosophy, technology studies, feminist studies, aesthetics, and phenomenology will delight in this book. " -- Nancy K. Frankenberry, John Phillips Professor in Religion Emerita, Dartmouth College
Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University and the Cluett Professor of Humanities emeritus at Williams College. His books include Seeing Silence and Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is professor of religion and science in society at Wesleyan University. Her books include Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters and Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse. Thomas A. Carlson is professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is also the founding director of the Humanities and Social Change Center at UCSB. His books include The Indiscrete Image: Infinitude and Creation of the Human; and With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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ISBN-13: 9780226782287
Published: 20 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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