An investigation of the computational turn in visual culture,
centered on the entangled politics and pleasures of data and
images. If the twentieth century was tyrannized by images, then the
twenty-first is ruled by data. In Technologies of Vision, Steve
Anderson argues that visual culture and the methods developed to
study it have much to teach us about today's digital culture; but
first we must examine the historically entangled relationship
between data and images. Anderson starts from the supposition that
there is no great divide separating pre- and post-digital culture.
Rather than creating an insular field of new and inaccessible
discourse, he argues, it is more productive to imagine that
studying "the digital" is coextensive with critical
models-especially the politics of seeing and knowing-developed for
understanding "the visual." Anderson's investigation takes on an
eclectic array of examples ranging from virtual reality, culture
analytics, and software art to technologies for computer vision,
face recognition, and photogrammetry. Mixing media archaeology with
software studies, Anderson mines the history of technology for
insight into both the politics of data and the pleasures of
algorithms. He proposes a taxonomy of modes that describe the
functional relationship between data and images in the domains of
space, surveillance and data visualization. At stake in all three
are tensions between the totalizing logic of data and the unruly
chaos of images.
General
Imprint: |
MIT Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The MIT Press |
Release date: |
October 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
Steve F Anderson
(Assistant Professor of Interactive Media)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-262-03701-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Reference & Interdisciplinary >
Communication studies >
Media studies
|
LSN: |
0-262-03701-7 |
Barcode: |
9780262037013 |
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