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Into the Image - Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision (Hardcover)
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Into the Image - Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision (Hardcover)
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We are constantly being told that we are living through an image
revolution. In this sceptical exploration of the politics of visual
culture, Kevin Robins assesses the nature of our emotional and
imaginary investment in the visual media from photography to
virtual reality. He looks at how modern image technologies allow us
to monitor and survey the "real" world while maintaining a distance
which somehow denies its reality. He asks what pressures lie behind
the utopian fantasies of cyberspace with its alternative realities
and virtual communities. Rather than accepting the fashionable idea
that the new visual technologies are displacing the real, "Into the
Image" examines them sociologically, as shaped by forces and events
in the real world, and demonstrates that what continues to matter
is the relation of image and screen culture to the way we interact
with that world.
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