Nonhuman photography

A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent.Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vi...

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Main Author Zylinska, Joanna
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass The MIT Press 2017
MIT Press
Edition1
SeriesThe MIT Press
Subjects
Automatic machinery
Automatic macninery
Electronic surveillance
Extinction (Biology)
Hidden camera photography
Photography
Photography > Philosophy
Photography |x Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Capturing the End of the World -- 1 Nonhuman Vision -- The view from where, exactly? -- Nonhuman vision as an ethico-political pointer -- The liberation of the I/eye -- Photography beyond humanism -- Nonhuman versus inhumane photography -- Beyond paranoid scholarship -- Circuit-breaking envisioners as new revolutionaries -- The haptic eye -- The ethical force of the cut -- Nonhuman photography: A postscript -- 2 The Creative Power of Nonhuman Photography -- iEarth -- Photography as philosophy -- Toward nonhuman photography (and all the way back) -- (Always) nonhuman photography -- The automated image -- The photographic condition -- Photography and life -- Becoming a camera -- Re-forming the world -- 3 Photography after the Human -- After what? -- Photography as a practice of life -- Ruin lust -- Visualizing the eco-eco disaster -- Imag(in)ing a postcapitalist world -- The temporal scaling of photography -- How would you photograph a mammoth? -- The very last pictures in the universe -- 4 Photography and Extinction -- Extinction as an affective fact -- How to grasp geological change -- Geomedia -- Photography beyond the tomb -- Fossilization of time -- On how to face the sunset -- Fossil nonsense -- 5 Ecomedia between Extinction and Obsolescence -- Death in media-ecological niches -- Shallow media geology -- The untimely death of photography -- Site I: Pieter Hugo's Permanent Error -- Site II: National Media Museum -- Site III: The vanishing object of technology -- As helpless as during the last ice age -- 6 We Have Always Been Digital -- Digital futures -- Liquid culture -- Photographic flow -- Archive fever -- Always already digital -- Beyond digital hysteria -- From lace to code -- An anarchive of photomediations -- What's to be done? -- Conclusion: Postphotography? -- Notes -- Introduction