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1. Introduction: Present Images

verfasst von : Paolo S. H. Favero

Erschienen in: The Present Image

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Abstract

Introducing readers to the notion of “present image” (the core contribution of the book), this chapter offers insights into the key theoretical tools on which the book builds. Starting with a discussion of the manifold ways in which images creep into everyday human life, the chapter addresses a number of theoretical pillars. It explores the idea of images as being a constitutive part of the lived world of human beings (they are in and of the world); it introduces the need to rethink dichotomic distinctions between the digital and the analog; and finally it looks into the politics of “present images”. The chapter ends with a brief overview of the structure of the book.

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Fußnoten
1
Funnily enough, Melinda and I ended up both using the expression “in the company of” as titles for two presentations we had for the same panel. She ended up completing that sentence with “images”, I with “things dead”.
 
2
In this critique, Latour refers to Cartesianism as the central pillar of modernism. According to him, Western societies have never been truly convinced and clear about the distinctions between nature and culture, body and soul, as it is often argued.
 
3
For the notion of auto-ethnography, see Okely and Callaway (1992) and Khosravi (2010).
 
4
By this I refer to my almost obsessive habit of making written, aural, and visual notes of all that happened during this process.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction: Present Images
verfasst von
Paolo S. H. Favero
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69499-3_1