Artificial presence
Subtitle: philosophical studies in image theory
By: Lambert Wiesing ; translated by Nils F. Schott.
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780804759403; 9780804759410
Subjects: Image (Philosophy); Art -- Philosophy
Work titles: Artifizielle Präsenz.
Description: These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible, released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his point of departure, Wiesing provides an overview of the fundamental positions in contemporary image studies. He describes the use of images as signs from a phenomenological perspective, reconstructs Plato's concept of mimesis by way of the canon of images it presupposes, and demonstrates the special relevance of extreme types of images-- virtual reality, desktop windows, or abstract photography--for the philosophical labor of the concept of the image.
Notes: "Originally published in German in 2005 under the title Artifizielle Präsenz: Studien zur Philosophie des Bildes."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Image studies, image theory, and the concept of the image; title: The main currents in today's philosophy of the image; title: When images are signs : the image object as signifier; title: What could "abstract photography" be?; title: Windows, TVs, and windows again; title: Virtual reality : the assimilation of the image to the imagination; title: Plato's concept of mimesis and its concealed canon; title: What are media?