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What philosophy wants from images

Autor D. N. Rodowick

Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

What philosophy wants from images
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In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works ...

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  • Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
  • ISBN13 9780226513195
  • ISBN10 022651319X
  • Tipo LIBRO
  • Páginas 224
  • Año de Edición 2017
  • Idioma Inglés
  • Encuadernación Rústica

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Ensayos , Estetica

What philosophy wants from images

Autor D. N. Rodowick

Editorial THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works ...

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Ahorra 1,40€
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Detalles del libro

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural experience through elliptical and discontinuous fragments of remembered images, even as the lived experience of film and photography recedes into the past, supplanted by the digital.

Rodowick here explores work by artists such as Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Victor Burgin, Harun Farocki, and others—artists who are creating forms that express a new historical consciousness of images. These forms acknowledge a complex relationship to the disappearing past even as they point toward new media that will challenge viewers’ confidence in what the images they see are or are becoming. What philosophy wants from images, Rodowick shows, is to renew itself conceptually through deep engagement with new forms of aesthetic experience.

Preface

1 The Memory of Cinema
2 The Queer Attractions of Perceptual Belief
3 A Virtual Presence in Space
4 Harun Farocki’s Liberated Consciousness
5 The Force of Small Gestures

Epilogue: Welcome to This Situation
Index

George Baker, UCAL
"This book is Rodowick's palinode, a deeply confessional and at times personal recantation of aspects of the author’s prior writing on the cinema. Faced with new work by figures including Ken Jacobs, Harun Farocki, or Victor Burgin, Rodowick theorizes the philosophically and aesthetically unrecognizable forms that cinema may now take, beyond the old divides of analog versus digital, medium versus media.  Philosophy must adjust and invent in response to such creations, but what is ultimately most compelling about Rodowick's new book is the vision it shares of an author exploding their own approach to images, a process of self-critique and transformation far too rare in the writing of most major figures in our shared humanistic disciplines."
Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania
“What Philosophy Wants from Images explores the relationship between art and philosophy at a moment of what D. N. Rodowick describes as a ‘naming crisis’ in the world of moving image discourse and practice. He argues that because art ‘runs ahead’ of philosophy, it can help philosophy generate new concepts and ideas, and these ideas and concepts can be accessed through the formal specificity of the works in question. There is no doubt that this book will appeal internationally to film and media scholars, philosophers, and art historians. Rodowick is one of the leading voices in the field, and his work plays a particularly important role in helping to provide clear paradigms of thought at times of media confusion.”

Homay King, Bryn Mawr College
“Philosophy is in need of something that is supplied by images: intuition, sensation, and the kinds of knowledge supplied by perceptual belief. What Philosophy Wants from Images
 traces lines of thought simply, in real time, demonstrating these principles through its prose style. In some ways, this is Rodowick’s most personal book, with descriptions of his own aesthetic practice and semi-anecdotal accounts of viewing and making images. Here, Rodowick continues to work with ideas from his previous books, undoing medium specificity and thinking with images in new, rich, and exciting ways.”

Materias

Ensayos , Estetica