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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of
order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and
subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal
level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social
level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious
situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental
states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in
contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious
physical, economical and psychological consequences our
understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural
imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we
encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms,
historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of
imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with
catastrophes and crises.This book presents a series of articles
investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises
in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's
eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes,
to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes
of Cormac McCarthy.
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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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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.
Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship
between what we consider visible and what invisible in different
areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these
changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate
the cultural significance of these developments, such as
transparency and privacy in urban architecture and the silent
invasion of surveillance technologies into everyday life. The book
contends that when it comes to the changing relationship of the
visible and the invisible, the connection between seeing and not
being seen is an exchange conditioned by physical and social
settings that create certain possibilities for visibility and
visuality, yet exclude others. The richness and complexity of this
cultural framework means that no single discipline or
interdisciplinary approach could capture it single-handedly.
Invisibility Studies begins this conversation by bringing together
scholars across the fields of architectural history and theory,
art, film and literature, philosophy, cultural theory and
contemporary anthropology as well as featuring work by a collective
of artists.
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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.
A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural
analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that
have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history,
aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the
particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and
being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by
the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity's complex
relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval
between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings?
How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through
the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns
us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think
through the technological and material dependencies that the
pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to
imagine the world beyond the pandemic-both utopian and dystopian?
The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and
distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a
distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital
studies.
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