Screen LibraryPostphenomenology and imagining : how to read technology /
"How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these question...
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Postphenomenology and the philosophy of technology
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| Summary: |
"How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the "postphenomenological" philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger, this collection includes an extensive "primer" chapter introducing and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well as a set of short pieces by "critical respondents": prominent scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but whose adjacent work is illuminating"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781793604552 179360455X |
| Index Number: | B829 |
| CLC: | B089 |
| Call Number: | B089/P858 |
| Contents: |
A primer on postphenomenology and image reading / Affect in the age of the image : the .gif use case / Science comes late to Sonification / Radiology as skillful coping and enactive hermeneutics : a critique of representations and corresponding truth / Image interpretation as object constitution : hermeneutic strategies in neuroscientific practice / "To be or not to be" : hermeneutic relations through technology in clinical cytology / Not too queer to be straight and not too straight to be queer : becoming bisexual through the screen of digital hook-up app bumble / Feynman diagrams and the phenomenology of paper tools / Collective visual hermeneutics: how posthumanist learning forms perception with technologies / Philosophize in it! politicize with it! : postphenomenology and earth remote sensing as sites of political/scientific intervention / Attending to the otherwise : reading illusions through virtual reality / |