1st Edition

Into the Image Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision

By Kevin Robins Copyright 1996
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.

    Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: IMAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND VISUAL CULTURE, 1 THE TOUCH OF THE UNKNOWN, 2 THE SPACE OF THE SCREEN, 3 SIGHTS OF WAR, 4 CYBERSPACE AND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, 5 CONSUMING IMAGES: FROM THE SYMBOLIC TO THE PSYCHOTIC, 6 THE CITY IN THE FIELD OF VISION, 7 WILL IMAGES MOVE US STILL?, Notes, Illustrations, Index

    Biography

    Kevin Robins