The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of
religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the
intersection of the human and the technological. 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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