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The Uncertain Image (Hardcover)
Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel
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R4,127
Discovery Miles 41 270
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Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied
by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images
present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties.
Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render
them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more
uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies
multiply. With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a
dominant vehicle for the construction and presentation of the truth
of data. Images present themselves as so many promises of the
certainty, predictability, and intelligibility offered by data. The
focus of this book is twofold. It analyses the kinds of images
appearing today, showing how they are marked by a return to modern
photographic emphases on high resolution, clarity, and realistic
representation. Secondly, it discusses the ways in which the
uncertainty of images is increasingly underscored within such
reiterated emphases on allegedly certain visual truths. This often
involves renewed encounters with noise, grain, glitch, blur,
vagueness, and indistinctness. This book provides the reader with
an intriguing transdisciplinary investigation of the uncertainly
certain relation between the cultural imagination and the
techno-aesthetic regime of big data and ubiquitous computing. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Digital
Creativity.
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The Uncertain Image (Paperback)
Ulrik Ekman, Daniela Agostinho, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Kristin Veel
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R1,243
Discovery Miles 12 430
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Citizens of networked societies are almost incessantly accompanied
by ecologies of images. These ecologies of still and moving images
present a paradox of uncertainties emerging along with certainties.
Images appear more certain as the technical capacities that render
them visible increase. At the same time, images are touched by more
uncertainty as their numbers, manipulabilities, and contingencies
multiply. With the emergence of big data, the image is becoming a
dominant vehicle for the construction and presentation of the truth
of data. Images present themselves as so many promises of the
certainty, predictability, and intelligibility offered by data. The
focus of this book is twofold. It analyses the kinds of images
appearing today, showing how they are marked by a return to modern
photographic emphases on high resolution, clarity, and realistic
representation. Secondly, it discusses the ways in which the
uncertainty of images is increasingly underscored within such
reiterated emphases on allegedly certain visual truths. This often
involves renewed encounters with noise, grain, glitch, blur,
vagueness, and indistinctness. This book provides the reader with
an intriguing transdisciplinary investigation of the uncertainly
certain relation between the cultural imagination and the
techno-aesthetic regime of big data and ubiquitous computing. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Digital
Creativity.
'Panic' and 'mourning' are two pivotal constructs that often emerge
and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis,
and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to
crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the
other hand, relates to the aftermath of a brutal disruption and to
the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely,
violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath,
while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by
another catastrophic incident. From an international and
inter-disciplinary outlook, this volume wishes to address questions
at the interface of panic and mourning and their impact on
practices in literature, media, and the arts. Since violent events
take place within cultures that will draw from their traditions,
memories and systems of beliefs in order to process them, the
authors of this book aim precisely at discussing the effects of
calamity upon the cultural structure and the way literary, artistic
and media practices not only reproduce individual and collective
anxieties but also generate knowledge and reshape the cultural
formation within which they emerge.
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to
critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to
visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an
interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms.
Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant
to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from
abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both
challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as
prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as
overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading
researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and
Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya
Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.
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