Objects of vision : making sense of what we see /
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible, fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Perspectives on sensory history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : making sense of what we see
- The persistence of miraculous vision
- Technological vision : hoaxes and the desire to believe
- Camera vision and the quest for indexical truths
- Untitled : postmodern vision and the triumph of the pseudo-event
- Conclusion : how to look at a million images.