Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

by John Lechte

Book Overview

With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force" - of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens - is no longer plausible. Technologically speaking, we have arrived at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415887151
• ISBN13: 9780415887151
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"